2 Kings 17:34

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.

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  • Gen 35:10 : 10 God said to him,“Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
  • Gen 33:20 : 20 There he set up an altar and called it“The God of Israel is God.”
  • 1 Kgs 11:31 : 31 Then he told Jeroboam,“Take ten pieces, for this is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon’s hand and I will give ten tribes to you.
  • 1 Kgs 18:11 : 11 Now you say,‘Go and say to your master,“Elijah is back.”’
  • 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”
  • 2 Kgs 17:25 : 25 When they first moved in, they did not worship the LORD. So the LORD sent lions among them and the lions were killing them.
  • 2 Kgs 17:27-28 : 27 So the king of Assyria ordered,“Take back one of the priests whom you deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.” 28 So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. He taught them how to worship the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 17:33 : 33 They were worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
  • Isa 48:1 : 1 The Lord Appeals to the Exiles Listen to this, O family of Jacob, you who are called by the name‘Israel,’ and are descended from Judah, who take oaths in the name of the LORD, and invoke the God of Israel– but not in an honest and just manner.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:32-33
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    32At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

    33They were worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

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

    35The LORD made a covenant with them and instructed them,“You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

    36Instead you must worship the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him.

    37You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

    38You must never forget the covenant I made with you, and you must not worship other gods.

  • Jer 44:10
    80%

    10To this day your people have shown no contrition! They have not revered me nor followed the laws and statutes I commanded you and your ancestors.’

  • 2 Kgs 17:40-41
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    40But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

    41These nations are worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-17
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    14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the LORD their God.

    15They 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.

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

    17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-8
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    76%

    7A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History This happened because the Israelites sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods;

    8they observed the practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out from before them, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
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    19Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the LORD their God; they followed Israel’s example.

  • Judg 2:17
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    17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    13The LORD answered,“This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.

    14Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

  • Ezek 20:24
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    24I did this because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
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    22The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam and did not repudiate them.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the LORD their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • Deut 11:32
    72%

    32Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

  • Jer 16:11
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    11Then tell them that the LORD says,‘It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.

  • Lev 18:3
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    3You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

  • Josh 22:24
    71%

    24We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Num 1:54
    71%

    54The Israelites did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses– that is what they did.

  • 1 Sam 8:8
    71%

    8Just as they have done from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.

  • Deut 28:58
    71%

    58The Curse of Covenant Termination“If you refuse to obey all the words of this law, the things written in this scroll, and refuse to fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,

  • Lam 4:16
    71%

    16פ(Pe) The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. They did not honor the priests; they did not show favor to the elders.

  • Judg 8:34
    71%

    34The Israelites did not remain true to the LORD their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
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    12This happened because they did not obey the LORD their God and broke his covenant with them. They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the LORD’s servant, had commanded.

  • Jer 17:23
    71%

    23Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They stubbornly refused to pay attention or to respond to any discipline.’

  • Hos 10:3
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    3The Lord Will Punish Israel by Removing Its Kings Very soon they will say,“We have no king since we did not fear the LORD. But what can a king do for us anyway?”

  • Jer 31:36
    71%

    36The LORD affirms,“The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.”

  • Ezek 20:16
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    16I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

  • Jer 2:4
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    4The Lord Reminds Them of the Unfaithfulness of Their Ancestors Now listen to what the LORD’s message, you descendants of Jacob, all you family groups from the nation of Israel.

  • Judg 2:19
    71%

    19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
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    8I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    71%

    7Don’t be like your fathers and brothers who were unfaithful to the LORD God of their ancestors, provoking him to destroy them, as you can see.

  • Hos 5:4
    71%

    4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.

  • Josh 23:7
    71%

    7or associate with these nations that remain near you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! You must not worship or bow down to them!

  • Neh 9:35
    71%

    35Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

  • Ps 147:20
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    20He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the LORD!

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

  • Ezek 20:18
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    18“‘But I said to their children in the wilderness,“Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

  • Deut 33:10
    70%

    10They will teach Jacob your ordinances and Israel your law; they will offer incense as a pleasant odor, and a whole offering on your altar.