2 Kings 17:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    and walked{H3212} in the statutes{H2708} of the nations,{H1471} whom Jehovah{H3068} cast out{H3423} from before{H6440} the children{H1121} of Israel,{H3478} and of the kings{H4428} of Israel,{H3478} which they made.{H6213}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And walked{H3212}{(H8799)} in the statutes{H2708} of the heathen{H1471}, whom the LORD{H3068} cast out{H3423}{(H8689)} from before{H6440} the children{H1121} of Israel{H3478}, and of the kings{H4428} of Israel{H3478}, which they had made{H6213}{(H8804)}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and walked after the customes of the Heythe, whom the LORDE had dryuen out before the children of Israel, and dyd as the kynges of Israel,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And walked according to the facions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the maners of the Kings of Israel, which they vsed,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And they walked in the ceremonies of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel, and in the

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    they observed the practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out from before them, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 16:3 : 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
  • Deut 18:9 : 9 When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
  • Lev 18:3 : 3 You 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.
  • Lev 18:27-30 : 27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled; 28 That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. 29 For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 Therefore you shall keep my ordinance, that you do not commit any of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 And as if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him. 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
  • 1 Kgs 21:26 : 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 16:10 : 10 Then king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship.
  • 2 Kgs 17:19 : 19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
  • 2 Kgs 21:2 : 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  • Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
  • Jer 10:2 : 2 Thus says the LORD, Do not learn the way of the heathen, and do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly followed the commandment.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 17:19-22
    4 verses
    82%

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

    20 So 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.

    21 For he ripped Israel from the house of David; they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin.

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:7
    79%

    7 For 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:9-12
    4 verses
    78%

    9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city.

    10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

    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 Kgs 17:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

    16 They 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.

    17 They 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.

  • Lev 20:23
    77%

    23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    76%

    33 Because they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do what is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    76%

    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 Kgs 17:32-34
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    75%

    26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    75%

    3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    74%

    2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Jer 9:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    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;

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

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    74%

    4 But sought the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the practices of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 7:17
    74%

    17 As for you, if you will walk before Me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments;

  • 1 Sam 8:8
    74%

    8 According 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.

  • Judg 2:17
    74%

    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.

  • Ezek 5:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

    7 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have multiplied more than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, nor done according to the judgments of the nations around you;

  • Ezek 20:18
    73%

    18 But 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:

  • 2 Chr 28:2
    73%

    2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for Baalim.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
    73%

    19 But 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;

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    73%

    15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

  • Lev 18:27
    73%

    27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled;

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
    73%

    24 And there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • Ezek 20:24
    73%

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

  • Judg 2:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

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

    12 And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    73%

    29 However, 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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
    73%

    9 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

  • 2 Chr 33:9
    72%

    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 13:9
    72%

    9 Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • Judg 10:6
    72%

    6 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and did not serve Him.

  • Ezek 20:16
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    72%

    26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

  • Deut 17:4
    72%

    4 and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

  • Judg 3:7
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    72%

    41 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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    72%

    11 He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but he walked in them.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    72%

    6 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained in Samaria.