2 Kings 17:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

To 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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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They neither fear the Lord nor follow the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And vnto this daye do they after ye olde fashion, so yt they nether feare ye LORDE, ner yet kepe their awne ordinaunces and lawes, after the lawe and commaundement that the LORDE comaunded the childre of Iacob, vnto whom he gaue ye name of Israel,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Vnto 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,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And 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.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    To this day they do after the former manner: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Unto this day they are doing according to the former customs -- they are not fearing Jehovah, and are not doing according to their statutes, and according to their ordinances, and according to the law, and according to the command, that Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob whose name He made Israel,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

  • World English Bible (2000)

    To this day they do what they did before: they don't fear Yahweh, neither do they follow their statutes, or their ordinances, or the law or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the LORD; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 35:10 : 10 And God said to him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he called his name Israel.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.
  • Gen 33:20 : 20 And he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 11:31 : 31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces: for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and will give ten tribes to you.
  • 1 Kgs 18:11 : 11 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
  • 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be your name:
  • 2 Kgs 17:25 : 25 At the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD; so the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
  • 2 Kgs 17:27-28 : 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Bring one of the priests you brought from there; let him go and dwell there, and let him teach the people the manner of the God of the land. 28 So one of the priests who had been carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 17:33 : 33 They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods, in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
  • Isa 48:1 : 1 Listen to this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and mention the God of Israel, but not in truth or in righteousness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-33
    2 verses
    85%

    32They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:35-38
    4 verses
    82%

    35The LORD made a covenant with them, and commanded them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them.

    36But the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you worship, and to him shall you offer sacrifice.

    37The statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall be careful to observe forever; and you shall not fear other gods.

    38The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget; nor shall you fear other gods.

  • Jer 44:10
    80%

    10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-17
    4 verses
    76%

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

    15They 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.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    75%

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

  • Judg 2:17
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 9:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    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:

  • Ezek 20:24
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
    72%

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

  • Jer 11:10
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    72%

    33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they did not depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

  • Deut 11:32
    72%

    32And you shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.

  • Jer 16:11
    72%

    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.

  • Lev 18:3
    71%

    3You shall not do according to the practices of the land of Egypt, where you lived; and you shall not do according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you; you shall not walk in their ordinances.

  • Josh 22:24
    71%

    24And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Num 1:54
    71%

    54And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they did.

  • 1 Sam 8:8
    71%

    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.

  • Deut 28:58
    71%

    58If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD;

  • Lam 4:16
    71%

    16The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them; they showed no respect to the priests, nor favored the elders.

  • Judg 8:34
    71%

    34And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    71%

    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.

  • Jer 17:23
    71%

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

  • Hos 10:3
    71%

    3For now they shall say, 'We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do for us?'

  • Jer 31:36
    71%

    36If those ordinances depart from before me, says the LORD, then the descendants of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.

  • Ezek 20:16
    71%

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

  • Jer 2:4
    71%

    4Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

  • Judg 2:19
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
    71%

    8And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore out of the land that I gave their ancestors, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 5:4
    71%

    4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Josh 23:7
    71%

    7That you do not come among these nations, those that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves down to them:

  • Neh 9:35
    71%

    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.

  • Ps 147:20
    71%

    20He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD.

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I command you today.

  • Ezek 20:18
    70%

    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:

  • Deut 33:10
    70%

    10They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they shall put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar.