2 Kings 17:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 4:28 : 28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
  • 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 17:12 : 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 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.
  • Jer 13:23 : 23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then you may also do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:41
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    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 17:14-15
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    83%

    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.

  • Judg 2:17
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:33-35
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    80%

    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.

    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.

  • Jer 7:26-27
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    79%

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

    27Therefore 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 17:23
    78%

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

  • Neh 9:16-17
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    78%

    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.

  • Jer 44:10
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    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.

  • Jer 44:5
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    5But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

  • Jer 7:24
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    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.

  • Jer 11:8
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    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.

  • Judg 2:19
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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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    76%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:9
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    9But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations which the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
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    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.

  • Zech 7:11
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    11But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.

  • Jer 11:10
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    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.

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    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:

  • Neh 9:29-30
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    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.

    30Yet 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.

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

  • Neh 9:26
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    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.

  • Zech 1:4
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    4Do 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.

  • Neh 9:35
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    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 78:10
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    10They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

  • 2 Chr 30:7
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    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.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • 2 Chr 24:19
    73%

    19Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them again to the LORD; and they testified against them, but they would not listen.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

  • Deut 29:26
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    26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

  • 1 Sam 12:15
    72%

    15But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.

  • Deut 1:32
    72%

    32Yet, in this thing you did not believe the LORD your God,

  • Jer 16:12
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    12And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.

  • Lev 26:14
    72%

    14But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

  • Deut 30:17
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    17But if your heart turns away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

  • Ezek 20:24
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    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.

  • Acts 7:39
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    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • Ps 78:32
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    32For all this they sinned still, and did not believe for his wondrous works.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
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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.

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    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.

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    33And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

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    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.

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    45Then you returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not listen to your voice, nor give ear to you.