2 Kings 17:40 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴⁰ Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after 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.

2 Kings 17:40 Cross References

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

2 Kings 17:34

Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

2 Kings 17:12

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

2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

2 Kings 17:39

but the LORD your God shall ye fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.