2 Chronicles 24:19

KJV1611 – Modern English

Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not listen.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The Lord sent prophets among them to bring them back to Him, but though the prophets testified against them, they refused to listen.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Yet he sent{H7971} prophets{H5030} to them, to bring them again{H7725} unto Jehovah;{H3068} and they testified{H5749} against them: but they would not give ear.{H238}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Yet he sent{H7971}{(H8799)} prophets{H5030} to them, to bring them again{H7725}{(H8687)} unto the LORD{H3068}; and they testified{H5749}{(H8686)} against them: but they would not give ear{H238}{(H8689)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yet sent he prophetes vnto the, yt they shulde turne vnto the LORDE, & they testified vnto the: but they wolde not heare.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And God sent Prophets amog the, to bring them againe vnto the Lord: & they made protestation among them, but they would not heare.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And he sent prophetes to them, to bring the againe vnto the Lord, & they testified vnto them: but they woulde not heare.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And He sendeth among them prophets, to bring them back unto Jehovah, and they testify against them, and they have not given ear;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto Jehovah; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 17:13-15 : 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.
  • 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending them, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them back to You, and they performed great provocations.
  • Ps 95:7-8 : 7 For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
  • Isa 28:23 : 23 Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
  • Isa 42:23 : 23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?
  • Isa 51:4 : 4 Listen to me, my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law will proceed from me, and I will make my justice a light for the people.
  • Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.
  • Jer 7:25-26 : 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
  • Jer 25:4-5 : 4 And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear. 5 They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever:
  • Jer 26:5 : 5 To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened;
  • Jer 44:4-5 : 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
  • Matt 13:9 : 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
  • Matt 13:15-16 : 15 For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
  • Luke 11:47-51 : 47 Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute: 50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.
  • Luke 16:31 : 31 And he said to him, If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
  • Luke 20:9-9 : 9 Then he began to speak this parable to the people: A certain man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to tenant farmers, and went into a far country for a long time. 10 And at harvest time he sent a servant to the tenant farmers, that they would give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the tenant farmers beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. 11 And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12 And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out. 13 Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will respect him when they see him. 14 But when the tenant farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours. 15 So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do to them?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 29:19
    80%

    19 Because they have not heeded my words, says the LORD, which I sent to them by my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you would not hear, says the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:13-14
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    79%

    13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

    14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    78%

    29 You testified against them, that You might bring them back to Your law. Yet they acted proudly and did not heed Your commandments but sinned against Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them. And they shrugged their shoulders, stiffened their necks, and would not hear.

    30 Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

  • Jer 25:4
    78%

    4 And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

  • Neh 9:26
    78%

    26 Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against You, cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them back to You, and they performed great provocations.

  • Jer 26:5
    77%

    5 To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • Jer 35:15
    77%

    15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

  • Jer 44:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

    5 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

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    75%

    18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

  • 2 Kgs 21:10
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    10 And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

  • 2 Chr 24:20
    74%

    20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has also forsaken you.

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    74%

    4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.

  • Zech 7:11-13
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    74%

    11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

    12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.

    13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:

  • 2 Chr 36:16
    74%

    16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

  • Jer 7:24-27
    4 verses
    74%

    24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

    25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

    26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

    27 Therefore you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

  • Jer 23:21-22
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    21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

    22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their deeds.

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    73%

    40 However, they did not listen, but acted according to their previous customs.

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    73%

    23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

  • Zech 1:6
    73%

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  • Jer 11:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

    8 Yet they did not obey nor incline their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not do.

  • Jer 35:17
    73%

    17 Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.

  • Neh 9:34
    73%

    34 Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

  • Jer 6:17
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    17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen.

  • 2 Chr 33:10
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    10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 37:19
    72%

    19 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, As for the words which you have heard;

  • 2 Chr 25:15
    71%

    15 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of your hand?

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    71%

    10 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

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    71%

    16 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you vain; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

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    17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

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    71%

    13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Jer 27:15-16
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    15 For I have not sent them, says the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that you might perish, you, and the prophets that prophesy to you.

    16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says the LORD; Do not listen to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie to you.

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    5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house,) will yet know that there has been a prophet among them.

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    15 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    71%

    12 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.

  • Jer 37:2
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    2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD, which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.

  • 2 Chr 34:26
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    26 And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, so shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which you have heard;

  • Dan 9:6
    71%

    6 Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.