2 Kings 17:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ When they first settled there, they did not worship the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them that killed some of them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ At the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear and revere the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

Common English Bible

²⁵ But when they began to live there, they didn’t worship the LORD, so the LORD sent lions against them, and the lions began to kill them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ And when they had begun to live there, they did not fear the Lord. And the Lord sent lions among them, which were killing them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ And when they began to dwell there, they feared not the Lord: and the Lord sent lions among them, which killed them.

2 Kings 17:25 Krydshenvisninger

1 Kings 13:24

Then as he went away, a lion met him on the road and killed him. His body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.

1 Kings 20:36

Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, as soon as you have left me, a lion will kill you.” And when he had left him, a lion met him and killed him.

2 Kings 17:26

So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them; they are killing them because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”

2 Kings 17:28

So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should worship the Lord.

2 Kings 17:32

They also worshiped the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They do not worship the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations worshiped the Lord but also served their carved images; to this day their children and their children’s children continue to do as their ancestors did.

2 Kings 2:24

When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

Isaiah 15:9

For the waters of Dibon are full of blood, yet I will bring upon Dibon even more— a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.

Jeremiah 10:7

Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For that is your due; among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is no one like you.

Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them; a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many; their faithlessness is great.

Ezekiel 14:15

If I send wild animals through the land to ravage it so that it is made desolate and no one may pass through because of the animals,

Ezekiel 14:21

Therefore thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four deadly acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild animals, and pestilence, to cut off humans and animals from it!

Daniel 6:26

I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people shall tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: For he is the living God, enduring forever. His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion has no end.

Leviticus 26:22

I will let loose wild animals against you, and they shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock; they shall make you few in number, and your roads shall be deserted.

Jonah 1:9

“I am a Hebrew,” he replied. “I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

Joshua 22:25

For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you Reubenites and Gadites; you have no portion in the Lord.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the Lord.