2 Kings 17:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 18:8 : 8 He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.
  • Job 31:27 : 27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
  • Hos 12:11 : 11 My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
  • Deut 13:6 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;
  • Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    81%

    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 17:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7And 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,

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

  • Jer 17:2
    76%

    2Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    75%

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

  • Isa 17:9
    73%

    9In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.

  • Hos 8:14
    73%

    14For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
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    72%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    72%

    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 3:7
    72%

    7And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

  • Hos 10:8-9
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    72%

    8And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will come to destruction; thorns and waste plants will come up on their altars; they will say to the mountains, Be a cover over us; and to the hills, Come down on us.

    9O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

  • Judg 2:11
    72%

    11And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

  • Deut 17:4
    72%

    4If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    71%

    11And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    71%

    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 17:32
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 3:6
    71%

    6And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

  • Jer 3:21
    71%

    21A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

  • Isa 2:15
    70%

    15And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

  • Josh 7:11
    70%

    11Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    70%

    35But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

  • Jer 7:17
    70%

    17Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    70%

    1Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

  • Judg 10:6
    70%

    6And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.

  • 2 Chr 29:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

    7The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
    70%

    34So 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;

  • Jer 5:11
    70%

    11For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Deut 17:2
    69%

    2If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • Hos 9:9
    69%

    9They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.

  • Hos 10:2
    69%

    2Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

  • Jer 7:30
    69%

    30For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

  • Judg 8:34
    69%

    34And 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 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.

  • Mic 1:5
    69%

    5All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

  • 2 Chr 33:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

    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;

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    69%

    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.

  • Jer 32:30
    69%

    30For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.

  • Neh 9:2
    69%

    2And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.

  • Judg 2:17
    69%

    17But 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.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    69%

    17However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

  • Josh 22:23
    69%

    23That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

  • Jer 11:13
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    69%

    3But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.