2 Kings 17:41

KJV1611 – Modern English

These 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.

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  • Zeph 1:5 : 5 And those that worship the host of heaven on the rooftops; and those that worship and that swear by the LORD, and also swear by Milcom;
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
  • 2 Kgs 17:32-33 : 32 They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. 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.
  • Ezra 4:1-3 : 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building the temple to the LORD God of Israel, 2 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said to them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here. 3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us to build a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.
  • Rev 3:15-16 : 15 I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth.
  • Josh 24:14-20 : 14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve the LORD. 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after he has done you good.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:31-35
    5 verses
    83%

    31and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

    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.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
    83%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
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    10They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

    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.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25When you beget children, and children's children, and have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:

  • Jer 17:2
    74%

    2While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-17
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
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    40That they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31That they may fear you, to walk in your ways, as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 12:30-31
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    73%

    30Take 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.

    31You 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 29:17
    73%

    17And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

  • Deut 31:13
    72%

    13And that their children, who have not known anything, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over Jordan to possess it.

  • 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.

  • Deut 4:10
    72%

    10Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, Gather the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

  • Deut 32:17
    71%

    17They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

  • Judg 2:11-12
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    71%

    11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

    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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Judg 2:17
    71%

    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 16:11
    71%

    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.

  • Hos 11:2
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    71%

    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.

  • Josh 22:27
    71%

    27But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.

  • Deut 29:26
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:21
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    21And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them.

  • Ezek 20:18
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    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:

  • Josh 24:14
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    14Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve the LORD.

  • Judg 3:7
    71%

    7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
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    6But if you or your children turn from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    71%

    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 4:28
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    28And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Ps 106:36
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    36And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • Exod 20:5
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    5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Isa 44:17
    70%

    17And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his carved image: he falls down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god.