2 Kings 17:15
13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
14 But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
16 They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- KJV
- And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
- WEB
- They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
- ASV
- And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
- DARBY
- And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
- BLB
- And they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He had testified against them. And they followed after the idols, and they became empty and [went] after the nations who [were] all around them, whom YHWH had commanded them that they should not do like them.
- ÅB
- og de forkastet hans bud og den pakt som han hadde gjort med deres fedre, og de vitnesbyrd som han hadde gitt dem, og fulgte de tomme avguder og ble dårlige og etterlignet de hedningefolk som bodde rundt omkring dem, om hvilke Herren hadde budt dem at de ikke skulle gjøre som de,
- OTB
- De forkastet hans forskrifter og hans pakt som han hadde gjort med deres fedre, og hans advarsler som han advarte dem med. Og de fulgte avguder og ble tomme, og fulgte nasjonene som omga dem, om hvem Herren hadde befalt dem ikke å gjøre som de gjorde.
- B1930
- og de forkastet hans bud og den pakt som han hadde gjort med deres fedre, og de vidnesbyrd som han hadde gitt dem, og fulgte de tomme avguder og blev dårlige og efterlignet de hedningefolk som bodde rundt omkring dem, om hvilke Herren hadde budt dem at de ikke skulde gjøre som de,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 12:30–31
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:5
This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
Read in contextRomans 1:21–23
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
Read in context1 Kings 16:13
This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
Read in contextExodus 24:6–8
Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
Read in contextPsalms 115:8
Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
Read in contextJeremiah 8:9
The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
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