2 Kings 17:40

But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

In Context

39And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.

41So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

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Cross References

2 Kings 17:8Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 17:34So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:25-41

The Samaritans' Idolatry. ( b. c. 720.) 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof. 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the Lord : therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The… Read the whole commentary →

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