2 Kings 17:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

The king took counsel, made two calves of gold, and said to the people: “You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 21:26

He became completely abominable by going after idols, just as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord drove out of the Israelites’ way.

2 Kings 16:10

King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria. When he saw the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar and a detailed design of its construction.

2 Kings 16:3

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even immolated his child by fire, in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:19

Even the people of Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord, their God, but followed the rites practiced by Israel.

2 Kings 17:40

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

2 Kings 21:2

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

Psalm 106:35

But mingled with the nations and imitated their ways.

Exodus 23:24

Therefore, you shall not bow down to their gods and serve them, nor shall you act as they do; rather, you must demolish them and smash their sacred stones.

Jeremiah 10:2

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the ways of the nations, and have no fear of the signs in the heavens, even though the nations fear them.

Ezekiel 5:6

But it rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the foreign lands around it; they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.

Leviticus 26:1

Do not make idols for yourselves. You shall not erect a carved image or a sacred stone for yourselves, nor shall you set up a carved stone for worship in your land; for I, the Lord, am your God.

Micah 6:16

You have kept the decrees of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you have walked in their counsels; Therefore I will deliver you up to ruin, and your citizens to derision; and you shall bear the reproach of the nations.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the nations there.