Judges 2:17

Modern English Version

Yet they would not listen to their judges, for they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshipped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord. They did not do as their fathers had done.

Cross References

Psalm 106:39

Thus were they defiled by their works and played the whore by their deeds.

Psalm 106:43

Many times He delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low through their iniquity.

Psalm 73:27

For behold, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

Exodus 32:8

They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molded calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, which has brought you up from the land of Egypt.’ ”

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Hosea 2:2

Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not My wife, and am I not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts,

Leviticus 17:7

They shall no more offer their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they have acted like whores. This shall be a perpetual statute for them throughout their generations.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments. The lies which their fathers followed have led them astray.

Galatians 1:6

I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

Deuteronomy 31:16

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise up and begin to prostitute themselves after the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they are going to be among them, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:18

And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil things which they shall have done, in that they turned to other gods.

Deuteronomy 9:12

Then the Lord said to me, “Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They are quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molded image for themselves.”

Deuteronomy 9:16

And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the Lord your God and had made yourselves a molded calf. You had quickly turned aside out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

Joshua 24:24

The people said to Joshua, “It is the Lord our God we will serve, and His voice that we will obey.”

Joshua 24:31

Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the deeds that the Lord had done for Israel.

Judges 2:7

So the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works that the Lord had done for Israel.

Judges 8:33

After Gideon died, the Israelites turned again to prostitute themselves with the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.

1 Samuel 12:12

“When you saw that Nahash, king of the Ammonites, came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king will reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 12:17

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord. And He will send thunder and rain, that you may know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, by asking for yourselves a king.”

1 Samuel 12:19

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we will not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”