2 Kings 17:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² for they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Common English Bible

¹² They worshipped images about which the LORD had said, Don’t do such things!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And they worshipped impurities, concerning which the Lord instructed them that they should not do this word.

2 Kings 17:12 Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:4

You shall not do so to the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1

“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no graven image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down to them; for I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 34:14

(for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

1 Kings 21:26

He did very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)

2 Kings 17:11

and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Joshua 23:7

that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down yourselves to them,

2 Kings 17:40

However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their soothing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.