2 Kings 17:19

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs of Israel which they had made.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18Therefore became the Lord very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence: there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.

20Therefore did the Lord reject all the seed of Israel, and he afflicted them, and gave them up into the hand of spoilers, until that he had cast them out of his presence.

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Cross References

1 Kings 14:22And Judah did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, and they moved him to wrath more than all that their fathers had done, with their sins which they committed.

2 Kings 8:27And he walked in the way of the house of Achab, and did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, like the house of Achab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Achab.

2 Kings 18:6And he adhered to the Lord, and turned not away from following him; but he kept his commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.

2 Chronicles 17:4On the contrary, after the God of his father did he seek, and in his commandments did he walk, but not after the doings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 21:13But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, as the house of Achab hath caused [others] to go astray, and hast also slain thy brothers of thy father's house, who were better than thyself:

Jeremiah 3:8And I saw, that, although because backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had sent her away, and given her bill of divorce unto her, still treacherous Judah her sister feared not, but went and played herself the harlot also.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 17:8-24

The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 8 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. 9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built… Read the whole commentary →

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