2 Kings 17:8

New Century Version

They lived like the nations the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of them. They lived as their evil kings had shown them,

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

King Jeroboam asked for advice. Then he made two golden calves. “It is too long a journey for you to go to Jerusalem to worship,” he said to the people. “Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt.”

1 Kings 21:26

Ahab sinned terribly by worshiping idols, just as the Amorite people did. And the Lord had taken away their land and given it to the people of Israel.

2 Kings 16:10

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. Ahaz saw an altar at Damascus, and he sent plans and a pattern of this altar to Uriah the priest.

2 Kings 16:3

Ahaz did the same things the kings of Israel had done. He even made his son pass through fire. He did the same hateful sins as the nations had done whom the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of the Israelites.

2 Kings 17:19

But even Judah did not obey the commands of the Lord their God. They did what the Israelites had done,

2 Kings 17:40

But the Israelites did not listen. They kept on doing the same things they had done before.

2 Kings 21:2

He did what the Lord said was wrong. He did the hateful things the other nations had done—the nations that the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of the Israelites.

Psalm 106:35

Instead, they mixed with the other nations and learned their customs.

Exodus 23:24

“You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. You must not live the way those people live. You must destroy their idols, breaking into pieces the stone pillars they use in worship.

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what he says: “Don’t live like the people from other nations, and don’t be afraid of special signs in the sky, even though the other nations are afraid of them.

Ezekiel 5:6

But she has refused to obey my laws and has been more evil than the nations. She has refused to obey my rules, even more than nations around her. The people of Jerusalem have rejected my laws and have not lived by my rules.

Hosea 5:11

Israel is crushed by the punishment, because it decided to follow idols.

Leviticus 18:3

In the past you lived in Egypt, but you must not do what was done in that country. And you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their customs.

Leviticus 26:1

“ ‘Don’t make idols for yourselves or set up statues or memorials. Don’t put stone statues in your land to bow down to, because I am the Lord your God.

Micah 6:16

This is because you obey the laws of King Omri and do all the things that Ahab’s family does; you follow their advice. So I will let you be destroyed. The people in your city will be laughed at, and other nations will make fun of you.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, don’t learn to do the hateful things the other nations do.