2 Kings 17:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ And they left all the commands of יהוה  their Elohim, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an Ashĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the [starry] hosts of the heavens and served Baal.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ They deserted all the commandments of the LORD their God. They made themselves two metal idols cast in the shape of calves and made a sacred pole. They bowed down to all the heavenly bodies. They served Baal.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And they abandoned all the precepts of the Lord, their God. And they made for themselves two molten calves and sacred groves. And they adored the entire celestial army. And they served Baal.

2 Kings 17:16 Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So the sovereign took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, “It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim. See, your mighty ones, O Yisra’ĕ

1 Kings 14:15

“And יהוה  shall smite Yisra’ĕ

1 Kings 14:23

For they also built for themselves high places, and pillars, and Ashĕ

1 Kings 15:13

And he also removed Maʽ

1 Kings 16:31

And it came to be, as though it had been a light matter for him to walk in the sins of Yaroḇ

1 Kings 16:33

And Aḥ

1 Kings 22:53

and served Baʽ

2 Kings 1:2

And Aḥ

2 Kings 11:18

And all the people of the land went to the house of Baʽ

2 Kings 16:3

But he walked in the way of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 17:10

and set up for themselves pillars and Ashĕ

2 Kings 18:6

and he clung to יהוה. He did not turn away from following Him, but guarded His commands, which יהוה  had commanded Mosheh.

2 Kings 21:3

For he turned and built the high places which Ḥ

Exodus 32:4

And he took this from their hand, and he formed it with an engraving tool, and made a moulded calf. And they said, “This is your mighty one, O Yisra’ĕ

Exodus 32:8

“They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a moulded calf, and have bowed themselves to it and slaughtered to it, and said, ‘This is your mighty one, O Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 2:8

And their land is filled with idols; they bow themselves to the work of their own hands, to what their own fingers have made.

Jeremiah 19:13

“And the houses of Yerushalayim and the houses of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 44:17

“But we shall do whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our sovereigns and our heads, in the cities of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 8:2

and shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which they have bowed themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried, they shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

Ezekiel 23:8

“And she did not forsake her whorings from Mitsrayim, for in her youth they had lain with her, and they squeezed her maiden nipples, and poured out their whorings on her.

Leviticus 26:1

‘Do not make idols for yourselves, and do not set up a carved image or a pillar for yourselves, and do not place a stone image in your land, to bow down to it. For I am יהוה  your Elohim.

Deuteronomy 16:21

“Do not plant for yourself any tree as an Ashĕ

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars – all the host of the heavens – and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which יהוה  your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.