2 Kings 17:29

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But each nation made its own gods and set them up in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made—each nation in the towns where they lived.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But euery people made the goddes, & put the in the houses vpon ye hye places, which the Samaritanes had made, euery people i their cities wherin they dwelt.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Howbeit euery nation made their gods, & put them in the houses of the hie places, which the Samaritanes had made, euery nation in their cities, wherein they dwelt.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and they are making each nation its gods, and place `them' in the houses of the high places that the Samaritans have made, each nation in their cities where they are dwelling.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And 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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 12:31 : 31 Jeroboam also built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Though all the nations walk in the name of their gods, we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.
  • 1 Kgs 13:32 : 32 For the message he declared by the word of the LORD against the altar at Bethel and against all the shrines of the high places in the towns of Samaria will surely be fulfilled.
  • Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 5 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 6 They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell. 7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats. 8 Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  • Ps 135:15-18 : 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. 16 They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see. 17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.
  • Isa 44:9-9 : 9 All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame. 10 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing? 11 Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, and the craftsmen are mere men. Let them all assemble and take their stand; they will be terrified and put to shame together. 12 The blacksmith works with iron, shaping it in the coals. He hammers it with his tools and works it with the strength of his arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and becomes faint. 13 The carpenter measures out wood; he marks it with a stylus. He shapes it with chisels and marks it with a compass. He crafts it in the form of a man, a human figure, to dwell in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars or chooses a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow. 15 It becomes fuel for a man; he takes part of it to warm himself, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. But he also makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. 16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire; he roasts meat over it, eats, and is satisfied. He warms himself and says, 'Ah, I am warm; I see the fire.' 17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol, and bows down to it. He worships it and prays to it, saying, 'Save me, for you are my god.' 18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand. 19 No one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, 'Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals, roasted meat, and ate. Now, should I make an abomination of the rest? Should I bow down to a block of wood?' 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, 'Isn't there a lie in my right hand?'
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For the customs of the nations are worthless. They cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so it will not totter. 5 They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm—nor can they do any good.
  • Hos 8:5-6 : 5 Your calf idol is rejected, Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be unable to attain innocence? 6 This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 17:30-33
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    82%

    30The men from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

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

    32They feared the Lord, but they also appointed for themselves all sorts of priests for the high places, who made sacrifices for them in the shrines of the high places.

    33They feared the Lord, but they also served their own gods according to the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

  • 2 Kgs 17:27-28
    2 verses
    79%

    27Then the king of Assyria gave this order: 'Send back one of the priests you took captive from Samaria. Let him live there and teach the people the customs of the God of the land.'

    28So one of the priests who had been taken captive from Samaria came back and lived in Bethel. He taught them how they should fear the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-12
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    7This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods.

    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

    9The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

    10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

    11There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

    12They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger. He did to them just as he had done at Bethel.

  • Isa 37:19
    74%

    19They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but the work of human hands—wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

  • Deut 29:17
    73%

    17Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    73%

    31Jeroboam also built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites.

  • 2 Kgs 17:24
    73%

    24The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the towns of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    72%

    18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone.

  • Judg 17:5
    72%

    5Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and he consecrated one of his sons to become his priest.

  • Judg 18:31
    72%

    31They kept the carved image that Micah had made throughout the time the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    72%

    17However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • Isa 2:8
    72%

    8Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    72%

    25In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

    28There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • Deut 29:26
    71%

    26Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book.

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Can people make their own gods? Such gods are not gods at all!

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    71%

    23They also built for themselves high places, sacred stones, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    71%

    9Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the descendants of Aaron, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of what are not gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
    71%

    29He set up one in Bethel, and the other in Dan.

  • 1 Chr 16:26
    71%

    26For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    70%

    15He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    70%

    35The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, saying, 'Do not fear other gods, do not bow down to them, do not serve them, and do not sacrifice to them.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    70%

    41So these nations feared the Lord, but they also served their carved images. Their children and grandchildren continued to do as their fathers did, even to this day.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    70%

    7Manasseh took a carved idol that he had made and placed it in the temple of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, 'In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.'

  • Ps 96:5
    70%

    5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
    70%

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    70%

    1When all this had been completed, all the Israelites who were present went out to the towns of Judah and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished the high places and the altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them completely. Then all the Israelites returned to their own cities, each to their own property.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
    70%

    19They spoke about the God of Jerusalem as they did about the gods of the peoples of the earth—products of human hands.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    70%

    33However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

  • Jer 2:28
    70%

    28But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise and save you in your time of trouble, if they can. For as many as your cities are your gods, Judah.

  • Isa 31:7
    70%

    7For on that day each of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your hands have sinfully made.

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    70%

    22And the answer will be: 'Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them. That is why He has brought all this disaster upon them.'

  • Jer 2:11
    70%

    11Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glory for worthless idols.

  • Zeph 2:11
    70%

    11The Lord will be awesome to them when He destroys all the gods of the earth. People from every shore and nation will bow down to Him, each from their own place.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    70%

    2However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12Hasn't the same Hezekiah removed his high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    70%

    3Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

  • Hos 8:6
    69%

    6This calf comes from Israel! A craftsman made it; it is not God. It will be shattered into pieces—this calf of Samaria.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
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    9And the people will answer, 'Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they embraced other gods, worshiped them, and served them. That is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'