2 Kings 17:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴⁰ However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ However, they did not listen, but they did as they had done formerly.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ But they wouldn’t listen. Instead, they continued doing their former religious practices.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ But they did not hearken: but did according to their old custom.

2 Kings 17:40 Cross References

2 Kings 17:12

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

2 Kings 17:34

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.

2 Kings 17:39

but you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 17:41

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.

2 Kings 17:8

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.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Deuteronomy 4:28

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.