2 Kings 17:15

Modern English Version

They rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers and the decrees He had given them. They followed idols, and became idolaters, and followed the surrounding nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them, that they should not do like them.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:11

Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and have not kept My covenant and statutes, which I commanded you, I will surely take the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 16:13

because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned and by which they made Israel to sin in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites, and walked in the statutes which the kings of Israel had made.

2 Chronicles 24:19

And God sent prophets to return them to the Lord. These warned the people, but they would not listen.

2 Chronicles 33:2

But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord previously cast out before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:9

So Manasseh made Judah and those living in Jerusalem to wander and to perform more evil than the nations that the Lord destroyed from before Israel.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless they became disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who had warned them to turn back to You. But they committed terrible provocations.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His law;

Exodus 16:28

Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are vain and a work of mockery; in the time of their punishment they shall perish.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity and have become vain?

Jeremiah 31:32

It will not be according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they broke My covenant, although I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:22

So the Lord could no longer bear it because of the evil of your deeds and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 44:23

Because you have burned incense and because you have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, nor walked in His law, nor in His statutes, nor in His testimonies, therefore this calamity has happened to you, as it is this day.”

Jeremiah 44:4

However, I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.”

Jeremiah 44:8

provoking Me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to dwell, so that you might cut yourselves off and become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they did not listen to Me, nor incline their ear, but hardened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed; they are dismayed and caught. Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, and what kind of wisdom do they have?

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see and does not see, ears to hear and does not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 2:3

And He said to me: Son of man, I send you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have transgressed against Me even to this very day.

Leviticus 26:15

if you despise My statutes, or if you abhor My judgments, so that you will not do all My commandments, but you break My covenant,

Jonah 2:8

“Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

John 2:8

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So concerning the eating of foods that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 29:24

All nations will say, “Why has the Lord done such to this land? What does the heatedness of this great anger mean?”

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have made Me jealous with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their empty things. And I will make them jealous of those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock is not as our rock; even our enemies themselves concede this.

1 Samuel 12:21

But do not turn aside, for then you would be going after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.