2 Kings 17:15

New American Bible - revised edition

They rejected his statutes, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They followed emptiness and became empty; they followed the surrounding nations whom the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:11

So the Lord said to Solomon: Since this is what you want, and you have not kept my covenant and the statutes which I enjoined on you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 16:13

because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

2 Kings 17:8

they followed the rites of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites and those that the kings of Israel had practiced.

2 Chronicles 24:19

Although prophets were sent to them to turn them back to the Lord and to warn them, the people would not listen.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:9

Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into doing even greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Psalm 115:8

Their makers will be like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant; they refused to walk according to 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 nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Jeremiah 2:5

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

Jeremiah 31:32

It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke my covenant, though I was their master—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:22

The Lord could no longer bear the evil of your deeds, the abominations you were doing; then your land became a waste, a horror, a curse, without even one inhabitant, as it is today.

Jeremiah 44:23

Because you offered sacrifice and sinned against the Lord, not listening to the voice of the Lord, not following his law, his statutes, and his decrees, therefore this evil has overtaken you, as it is today.

Jeremiah 44:4

Though I repeatedly sent you all my servants the prophets, saying: “You must not commit this abominable deed I hate,”

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me with the works of your hands, offering sacrifice to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you have come to live? Will you cut yourselves off and become a curse, a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they have not listened to me nor have they paid attention; they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their ancestors.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise are put to shame, terrified, and trapped; Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what sort of wisdom do they have?

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear. They are such a rebellious house!

Ezekiel 2:3

say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.

Leviticus 26:15

if you reject my statutes and loathe my decrees, refusing to obey all my commandments and breaking my covenant,

Jonah 2:8

When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.

John 2:8

Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Deuteronomy 18:10

Let there not be found among you anyone who causes their son or daughter to pass through the fire, or practices divination, or is a soothsayer, augur, or sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 29:24

And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 32:21

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Deuteronomy 32:31

Indeed, their “rock” is not like our Rock; our enemies are fools.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to gods who are nothing, who cannot act and deliver. They are nothing.