2 Kings 17:40

New American Bible - revised edition

But they did not listen; they continued to act according to their former customs.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:12

and served idols, although the Lord had told them: You must not do this.

2 Kings 17:34

To this very day they continue to act according to their former customs, not venerating the Lord nor observing the statutes and regulations, the law and commandment, that the Lord enjoined on the descendants of Jacob, whom he had named Israel.

2 Kings 17:39

You must venerate only the Lord, your God; it is he who will deliver you from the power of all your enemies.

2 Kings 17:41

But these nations were both venerating the Lord and serving their own idols. Their children and children’s children are still acting like their ancestors, to this very day.

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.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change their skin, leopards their spots? As easily would you be able to do good, accustomed to evil as you are.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you shall serve gods that are works of human hands, of wood and stone, gods which can neither see nor hear, neither eat nor smell.