2 Kings 17:19

¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

¹⁸ Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

²⁰ And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

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

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
KJV: Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
WEB: Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
ASV: Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
DARBY: Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
BLB: Even Judah did not keep the commandments of YHWH their God, and they walked in the statutes of Israel that they made.

ÅB: Heller ikke Juda holdt Herrens, sin Guds bud, men de vandret i de skikker som Israel hadde innført.
OTB: Også Juda holdt ikke Herrens, deres Guds, bud, men de fulgte de skikkene som Israel hadde innført.
B1930: Heller ikke Juda holdt Herrens, sin Guds bud, men de vandret i de skikker som Israel hadde innført.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
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1 Kings 14:22–23
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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2 Chronicles 21:11
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
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Jeremiah 3:8–11
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
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Ezekiel 16:51–52
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
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2 Chronicles 21:13
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself:
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Ezekiel 23:4–13
And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
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Jeremiah 2:28
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
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