2 Kings 17:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

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  • Gen 35:10 : 10 Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
  • Gen 33:20 : 20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 11:31 : 31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;
  • 1 Kgs 18:11 : 11 And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.
  • 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:
  • 2 Kgs 17:25 : 25 Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.
  • 2 Kgs 17:27-28 : 27 Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land. 28 So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.
  • 2 Kgs 17:33 : 33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.
  • Isa 48:1 : 1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:32-33
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    32 So 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.

    33 They 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 17:35-38
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    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

    36 But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

    37 And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.

    38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

  • Jer 44:10
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    10 Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
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    40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

    41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-17
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    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

    15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

    16 And 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.

    17 And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-8
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    7 And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    11 Burning 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;

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
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    19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

    14 But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

  • Ezek 20:24
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    24 Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
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    22 And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • Deut 11:32
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    32 And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

  • Jer 16:11
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    11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

  • Lev 18:3
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    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

  • Josh 22:24
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    24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Num 1:54
    71%

    54 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

  • 1 Sam 8:8
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    8 As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.

  • Deut 28:58
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    58 If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD;

  • Lam 4:16
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    16 The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

  • Judg 8:34
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    34 And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
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    12 Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3 Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

  • Jer 31:36
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    36 If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.

  • Ezek 20:16
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    16 Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

  • Jer 2:4
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    4 Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:

  • Judg 2:19
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    19 But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
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    8 And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Neh 9:35
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    35 For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.

  • Ps 147:20
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    20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

  • Deut 27:10
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    10 For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day.

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

  • Deut 33:10
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    10 They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.