2 Kings 17:12

and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, 'Ye do not do this thing;'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

In Context

11and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah,

13And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

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Cross References

Exodus 20:3'Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

Leviticus 26:1'Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I [am] Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 4:23'Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He hath made with you, and have made to yourselves a graven image, a similitude of anything [concerning] which Jehovah thy God hath charged thee:

Deuteronomy 12:4'Ye do not do so to Jehovah your God;

2 Kings 17:40and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,

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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