2 Kings 17:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Yee they despysed his ordinaunces and his couenaunt which he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he witnessed amonge them, and walked in their awne vanities, and became vayne folowinge the Heythen, which dwelt rounde aboute them, concernynge whom the LORDE had commaunded them, that they shulde not do as they dyd.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And they refused his statutes and his couenant, that he made with their fathers, & his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed vnto them) and they followed vanitie, and became vaine, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whome the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For they refused his statutes, and his appoyntment that he made with their fathers, and the witnesses wherwith he witnessed vnto them, and they folowed vanitie, and became vayne, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lorde had charged them that they shoulde not do lyke them.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and `went' after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the LORD. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you do not enquire after their gods, asking, How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise. 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
  • Rom 1:21-23 : 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
  • 1 Kgs 16:13 : 13 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
  • Exod 24:6-8 : 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people: and they said, All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD has made with you concerning all these words.
  • Deut 6:17-18 : 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you. 18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
  • Deut 29:10-15 : 10 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God: your leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners that are in your camp, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water: 12 That you should enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you this day: 13 That he may establish you today as a people for himself, and that he may be to you a God, as he has said to you, and as he has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 I make this covenant and this oath not only with you; 15 But also with him who stands here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day:
  • Deut 29:25-26 : 25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • Deut 32:31 : 31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And do not turn aside: for then you should go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
  • 2 Kgs 17:8 : 8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12 : 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger. 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.
  • 2 Chr 33:2 : 2 But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 33:9 : 9 So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
  • 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.
  • Neh 9:29-30 : 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.
  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.
  • Jer 31:32 : 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says the LORD:
  • Jer 44:4 : 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.
  • Jer 44:23 : 23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as at this day.
  • John 2:8 : 8 And he said to them, Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the banquet. And they took it.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 17Yet 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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    16They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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

  • 12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • 24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  • 8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

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    11There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 10They 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.

  • 16Because they despised my judgments, and did not walk in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

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

    41These nations feared the LORD, yet served their carved images. Their children and their children's children have continued doing as their fathers did, to this day.

  • 5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    76%

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

    14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    76%

    16But they and our forefathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

    17They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.

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    33They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods, in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.

    34To this day they continue practicing their former habits: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow his statutes, or his ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

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    19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

    20So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

  • Judg 2:19-20
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    19And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them; they did not cease from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

    20And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

  • 10They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

  • 11Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

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    25Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

    26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

  • 25But they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

  • 24But 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.

  • 8Yet 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.

  • 7And do not be like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as you see.

  • 12because 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.

  • 22And they will answer, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity upon them.

  • 8According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, by forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you also.

  • 18But I said to their children in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

  • 29You 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.

  • 6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • 9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

  • 22The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them,

  • 9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

  • 18And 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.

  • 9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold of other gods, and have worshiped them, and served them: therefore, the LORD has brought upon them all this evil.

  • 19But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • 26Nevertheless, 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.

  • 2As they were called, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baal, and burned incense to carved images.

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

  • 35For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

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

  • 10Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'