and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”
2 Kings 17:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition However, they did not listen, but they did as they had done formerly. American Standard Version (1901) Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. Common English Bible But they wouldn’t listen. Instead, they continued doing their former religious practices. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, they did not listen to this. Instead, they acted in accord with their earlier custom. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they did not hearken: but did according to their old custom. |
and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”
To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
but you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.
and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs which the kings of Israel had introduced.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of men's hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.