2 Kings 17:28

Geneva Bible (1560)

So one of the Priestes, which they had caryed from Samaria, came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they shoulde feare the Lorde.

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  • 1 Kgs 12:29-32 : 29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other set he in Dan. 30 And this thing turned to sinne: for the people went (because of the one) euen to Dan. 31 Also he made an house of hie places, and made Priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui. 32 And Ieroboam made a feast the fifteenth day of the eight moneth, like vnto the feast that is in Iudah, and offred on the altar. So did he in Beth-el and offered vnto the calues that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the Priestes of the hie places, which he had made.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    23Vntill the Lord put Israel away out of his sight, as he had said by all his seruants the Prophets, and caryed Israel away out of their land to Asshur vnto this day.

    24And the King of Asshur brought folke from Babel, and from Cuthah, and from Aua, and from Hamath, and from Sepharuaim, & placed them in the cities of Samaria in steade of the children of Israel: so they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

    25And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they feared not the Lord: therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slewe them.

    26Wherefore they spake to the King of Asshur, saying, The nations which thou hast remoued, and placed in the cities of Samaria, knowe not the maner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they knowe not the maner of the God of the land.

    27Then the King of Asshur commaunded, saying, Carie thither one of the Priestes whome ye brought thence, and let him goe and dwell there, and teache them the maner of the God of the countrey.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    79%

    29Howbeit 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.

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

    32Thus they feared the Lorde, and appoynted out Priestes out of them selues for the hie places, who prepared for them sacrifices in the houses of the hie places.

    33They feared the Lord, but serued their gods after the maner of the nations whome they caryed thence.

    34Vnto this day they doe after the olde maner: they neyther feare God, neyther doe after their ordinances, nor after their customes, nor after the Lawe, nor after the commaundement, which the Lord commanded the children of Iaakob, whom he named Israel,

    35And with whom the Lord had made a couenant, 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
    73%

    6In the ninth yeere of Hoshea, the King of Asshur tooke Samaria, and caryed Israel away vnto Asshur, and put them in Halah, and in Habor by the riuer of Gozan, & in the cities of the Medes.

    7For when the children of Israel sinned against the Lorde their God, which had brought them out of the land of Egypt, fro vnder ye hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, & feared other gods,

    8And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed,

  • 2 Chr 17:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8And with them Leuites, Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Iehonathan, and Adoniiah, and Tobiiah, and Tob-adoniiah, Leuites, and with the Elishama and Iehoram Priestes.

    9And they taught in Iudah, and had the booke of the Lawe of the Lorde with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Iudah, and taught the people.

  • Hos 10:5
    72%

    5The inhabitants of Samaria shal feare because of the calfe of Beth-auen: for the people thereof shall mourne ouer it, and the Chemarims thereof, that reioyced on it for the glorie thereof, because it is departed from it.

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
    70%

    17Then he sayde, What title is that which I see? And the men of the citie sayd vnto him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iudah, and tolde these things that thou hast done to the altar of Beth-el.

  • 1 Kgs 13:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32For that thing which he cried by the word of the Lorde against the altar that is in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the hie places, which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to passe.

    33Howbeit after this, Ieroboam conuerted not from his wicked way, but turned againe, and made of the lowest of the people Priests of the hie places. Who would, might consecrate him selfe, and be of the Priestes of the hie places.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    69%

    9Haue ye not driuen away the Priestes of the Lorde the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites, and haue made you Priests like the people of other countreis? whosoeuer commeth to consecrate with a yong bullocke and seuen rams, the same may be a Priest of them that are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
    68%

    29And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other set he in Dan.

  • 1 Kgs 13:10-11
    2 verses
    68%

    10So he went another way and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.

    11And an olde Prophet dwelt in Beth-el, and his sonnes came and tolde him all ye woorkes, that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and the wordes which he had spoken vnto the King, tolde they their father.

  • Jer 26:17
    68%

    17Then rose vp certaine of the Elders of the lande, and spake to all the assemblie of the people, saying,

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11And there burnt incense in all the hie places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and wrought wicked things to anger the Lord,

    12And serued idoles: whereof the Lorde had sayd vnto them, Ye shal do no such thing,

  • 2 Chr 11:13-14
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    68%

    13And the Priests and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted vnto him out of all their coastes.

    14For the Leuites left their suburbes & their possession, and came to Iudah and to Ierusalem: for Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring in the Priestes office vnto the Lorde.

  • 1 Chr 15:14
    68%

    14So the Priestes and the Leuites sanctified them selues to bring vp the Arke of the Lorde God of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    68%

    19Iosiah also tooke away all the houses of the hie places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the Kings of Israel had made to anger the Lord, and did to them according to all the factes that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    68%

    31Also he made an house of hie places, and made Priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

  • 1 Kgs 13:1
    68%

    1And beholde, there came a man of God out of Iudah (by the commaundement of the Lorde) vnto Beth-el, and Ieroboam stoode by the altar to offer incense.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    68%

    18But to the King of Iudah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, so shal ye say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Israel, The wordes that thou hast heard, shal come to passe.

  • 2 Chr 30:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6So the postes went with letters by the commission of the King, and his princes, thorowout all Israel and Iudah, and with the commaundement of the King, saying, Ye children of Israel, turne againe vnto the Lorde God of Abraham, Izhak, and Israel, and he will returne to the remnant that are escaped of you, out of ye hands of the Kings of Asshur.

    7And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lorde God of their fathers: and therfore he made them desolate, as ye see.

  • Judg 18:18-20
    3 verses
    67%

    18And the other went into Michahs house and fet the grauen image, the Ephod, and the Teraphim, and the molten image. Then saide the Priest vnto them, What doe ye?

    19And they answered him, Holde thy peace: lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs to be our father and Priest. Whether is it better that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto ye house of one man, or that thou shouldest be a Priest vnto a tribe and to a familie in Israel?

    20And the Priestes heart was glad, and hee tooke the Ephod and the Teraphim, and the grauen image, and went among the people.

  • Isa 29:13
    67%

    13Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,

  • Ezek 14:1
    67%

    1Then came certaine of the Elders of Israel vnto me, and sate before me.

  • Deut 20:18
    67%

    18That they teache you not to doe after all their abominations, which they haue done vnto their gods, & so ye should sinne against the Lorde your God.

  • Judg 18:4
    67%

    4And he answered them, Thus and thus dealeth Michah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his Priest.

  • Ezek 12:17
    66%

    17Moreouer, the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
    66%

    3And all the Elders of Israel came and the Priests tooke the Arke.

  • Judg 17:12
    66%

    12And Michah consecrated the Leuite, and the yong man was his Priest, and was in the house of Michah.

  • 2 Chr 29:15
    66%

    15And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselues and came according to the commaundement of the King, & by the words of the Lord, for to clense the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    66%

    16And after the Leuites there came to Ierusalem of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their heartes to seeke the Lord God of Israel, to offer vnto the Lord God of their fathers.

  • Deut 17:9-10
    2 verses
    66%

    9And thou shalt come vnto the Priestes of the Leuites, and vnto the iudge that shall be in those daies, and aske, and they shall shewe thee the sentence of iudgement,

    10And thou shalt do according to that thing which they of that place (which the Lorde hath chosen) shewe thee, and thou shalt obserue to doe according to all that they informe thee.

  • Lev 17:8
    66%

    8Also thou shalt say vnto them, whosoeuer he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which soiourne among them, that offreth a burnt offring or sacrifice,