2 Kings 17:40

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

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.

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 rules or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

2 Kings 17:12

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

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 that the kings of Israel had practiced.

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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 carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.