2 Kings 17:33 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³³ So they worshiped the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods, as did the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

Common English Bible

³³ So they worshipped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the religious practices of the nations from which they had been exiled.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ And though they worshipped the Lord, they also served their own gods, according to the custom of the nations from which they had been transferred into Samaria.

2 Kings 17:33 Cross References

Luke 16:13

No slave can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

Matthew 6:24

“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

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.

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord but also swear by Milcom,

1 Kings 18:21

Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.

Hosea 10:2

Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.

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.