2 Kings 17:28

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And then one of the priestes whom they had caried from Samaria, came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them howe they shoulde feare the Lorde.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:29-32 : 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other set he in Dan. 30 And this thing turned to sinne: for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan. 31 And he made an house of hill aulters, and made priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui. 32 And Ieroboam made a feast the fyfteene day of the eyght moneth, lyke vnto the feast that is in Iuda, and offered on the aulter: And so did he in Bethel, to offer vnto the calues that he had made: And he put in Bethel the priestes of the hill aulters which he had made.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therfore thus hath the Lorde sayd: Forsomuche as this people when they be in trouble, do honour me with their mouth and with their lippes, but their heart is farre fro me, and the feare whiche they haue vnto me proceedeth of a commaundement that is taught of men:
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone, they be the blynde leaders of the blynde. If the blynde leade the blynde, both shall fall into the dytche.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:23-27
    5 verses
    88%

    23Untill the Lord put Israel away out of his sight, as he had sayd by all his seruauntes the prophetes: And so was Israel caried away out of their owne land to Assyria euen vnto this day.

    24And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, from Cutha, fro Aua, from Hamath, and from Sepharuaim, and put them in the cities of Samaria in steede of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities therof.

    25And it fortuned, that at the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the Lorde, and the Lorde sent lions among them, which slue them.

    26Wherfore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying: The nations which thou hast translated & put in the cities of Samaria knowe not the lawe of the God of the lande: therefore he hath sent lions vpon them, and behold they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of worshipping the God of the lande.

    27Then the king of Assyria commaunded, saying: Cary thyther one of the priestes whom ye brought thence, and let hym go and dwell there, and teache them the fashion how to serue the God of the countrey.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    79%

    29Howebeit 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-35
    4 verses
    75%

    32And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places.

    33And so they feared the Lord, and serued their owne gods, after the maner of the people whom they caryed thence.

    34And vnto this day they do after the olde maner: and neither feare God, neither do after their ordinaunces and customes, and after the lawe & commaundement which the Lorde commaunded the children of Iacob, whom he called Israel.

    35And the Lorde made an appoyntment with them, and charged them, saying: Feare none other gods, nor bowe your selues to them, nor serue them, nor sacrifice to them:

  • 2 Kgs 17:6-8
    3 verses
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    6In the ninth yere of Hosea, the king of Assyria toke Samaria, and carryed Israel away vnto Assyria, & put them in Hala & in Habor by the ryuer of Goza and in the cities of the Medes.

    7For it came to passe, that the children of Israel sinned against the Lord their God which had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from vnder the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and feared other gods.

    8And they walked in the ceremonies of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel, and in the

  • 2 Chr 17:8-9
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    72%

    8And with them he sent Leuites, euen Semeiahu, Nethaniahu, Zebadiahu, Asael, Semiramoth, Iehonathan, Adoniahu, Tobiahu, & Tob adoniahu, & with them Elisama, and Iehoram, priestes.

    9And they taught in Iuda, and had the booke of the lawe of God with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Iuda, and taught the people.

  • Hos 10:5
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    5They that dwell in Samaria shall feare because of the Calfe of Bethauen, for the people therof shall mourne ouer it, yea and the priestes also reioyced on it for the glorie therof, because it is departed from it.

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
    70%

    17Then he saide: What title is that that I see? And the men of the citie tolde him: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iuda, and tolde the selfe same thinges that thou hast done to the aulter of Bethel.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32-33
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    32For the saying which he cryed at the word of the Lorde against the aulter in Bethel, and against all the houses of hie places which are in the cities of Samarie, shall come to passe.

    33Howbeit, for all that Ieroboam conuerted not from his wicked way: but turned backe, and made of the lowest of the people priestes of the hie places: And who so pleased him, he filled his hand, and he became priest of the hie places.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
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    9And haue ye not cast out the priestes of the Lorde the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites, and haue made you priestes after the maner of the nations of other landes? so that whosoeuer commeth & consecrateth his hande with a young oxe and seuen rammes, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
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    29And he set the one in Bethel, and the other set he in Dan.

  • 1 Kgs 13:10-11
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    10And so he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

    11And there dwelt an olde prophet in Bethel, and his sonnes came and tolde him al the workes that the man of God had done that day in Bethel, and the wordes which he had spoken vnto the king tolde they their father also.

  • Jer 26:17
    68%

    17The elders also of the lande stoode vp, and sayde thus vnto all the people.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    68%

    11And there they burnt incense in all the hygh places, as did the heathen whom the Lord caryed away before them, and wrought wicked thinges to anger the Lorde withall:

    12For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing.

  • 2 Chr 11:13-14
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    13And the priestes and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coastes.

    14For the Leuites left their suburbes, and their possession, and came to Iuda and Hierusalem: For Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring vnto the Lorde.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
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    14So the priestes and the Leuites sanctified them selues, to fet the arke of the Lorde God of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19And all the houses of the high places in the cities of Samaria, which the king of Israel had made to anger the Lorde withal those Iosia put out of the way, & did to them according to all the actes that he had done in Bethel.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31And he made an house of hill aulters, and made priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

  • 1 Kgs 13:1
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    1And behold, ther came a man of God out of Iuda by the worde of the lord, vnto Bethel: and Ieroboam stoode by the aulter to put incense.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18But to the king of Iuda whiche sent you to aske counsell of the Lord, so shall ye say: Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel, as touching the wordes whiche ye haue hearde:

  • 2 Chr 30:6-7
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    6So the postes went with letters of the king and of his lordes throughout all Israel & Iuda, and at the commaundement of the king they sayde: Ye children of Israel, turne againe vnto the Lorde God of Abraham, Isahac, and Israel, and he wyll returne to the remnaunt that are escaped of you out of the hande of the kinges of the Assyrians.

    7And be not ye lyke your fathers and your brethren, which trespassed against the Lorde God of their fathers, which gaue them vp to be destroyed, as ye see.

  • Judg 18:18-20
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    67%

    18Whyle the other went into Micahs house, and fet the carued image, the Ephod, Theraphim, and the moulten image: Then saide the priest vnto them, what do ye?

    19They aunswered hym: Holde thy peace, lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs, to be our father and priest: Is it better for thee to be a priest vnto the house of one man, then to be a priest vnto a tribe or kynred in Israel?

    20And the priestes hearte was glad, and toke the Ephod, and Theraphim, and the grauen image, and went in the middest of the people.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13Therfore thus hath the Lorde sayd: Forsomuche as this people when they be in trouble, do honour me with their mouth and with their lippes, but their heart is farre fro me, and the feare whiche they haue vnto me proceedeth of a commaundement that is taught of men:

  • Ezek 14:1
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    1There resorted vnto me certayne of the elders of Israel, and sate downe by me.

  • Deut 20:18
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    18That they teache you not to do after all their abhominations which they haue done vnto their Gods, and so ye shoulde sinne agaynst the Lorde your God.

  • Judg 18:4
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    4And he aunswered them: Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hyred me, and I am become his priest.

  • Ezek 12:17
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    17Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
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    3And al the elders of Israel were come, and the priestes tooke vp the arke.

  • Judg 17:12
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    12And Micah consecrated the Leuite, & the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

  • 2 Chr 29:15
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    15And they gathered their brethren, and purified them selues, and came according to the commaundement of the king and the wordes of the Lord for to clense the house of the Lorde:

  • 2 Chr 11:16
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    16And after the Leuites, there went out all the tribes of Israel, such as submitted their heartes to seeke the Lord God of Israel, and came to Hierusalem to offer vnto the Lorde God of their fathers.

  • Deut 17:9-10
    2 verses
    66%

    9And come vnto the priestes the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shalbe in those dayes, and aske: and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement.

    10And thou must do accordyng to that which they of that place (which the Lord had chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to do accordyng to all that they enfourme thee:

  • Lev 17:8
    66%

    8And thou shalt say vnto them: Whatsoeuer man it be of the house of Israel, or of the straungers whiche soiourne among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,