2 Kings 17:30

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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  • 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:31-33
    3 verses
    83%

    31The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

    32So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

    33They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    82%

    29And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

    11Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;

    12And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

    17And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Isa 37:19
    72%

    19And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    72%

    18And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
    71%

    24Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

  • Isa 2:8
    71%

    8Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.

  • Jer 16:20
    71%

    20Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Amos 5:26
    71%

    26Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
    71%

    19Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.

  • Jer 7:18
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    18The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    70%

    3For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    70%

    23For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    70%

    3He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    70%

    25And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13-14
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    70%

    13And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

    14The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

  • Jer 11:13
    70%

    13For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.

  • Isa 31:7
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    7For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

  • Ezek 23:39
    69%

    39For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

  • 2 Chr 28:3
    69%

    3More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • Judg 18:31
    69%

    31And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Ezek 16:17
    69%

    17And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

  • Jer 1:16
    69%

    16And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.

  • 2 Kgs 18:34
    69%

    34Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah? have they kept Samaria out of my hands?

  • Hos 13:2
    69%

    2And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    69%

    19Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • Acts 7:43
    69%

    43And you took up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, images which you made to give worship to them: and I will take you away, farther than Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    69%

    11Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

  • Exod 34:17
    69%

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 29:17
    69%

    17And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

  • Ps 135:15
    69%

    15The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Isa 17:8
    69%

    8He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

  • Isa 44:15
    69%

    15Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

  • Jer 32:35
    69%

    35And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.

  • Ezek 23:37
    68%

    37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Acts 7:41
    68%

    41And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

  • Deut 4:28
    68%

    28There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Jer 44:19
    68%

    19And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?

  • Jer 32:29
    68%

    29And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.