2 Kings 17:15

New English Translation

They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:11

So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 16:13

This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.

2 Kings 17:8

they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

2 Chronicles 24:19

The Lord sent prophets among them to lead them back to him. They warned the people, but they would not pay attention.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:9

But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

Exodus 16:28

So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Jeremiah 10:8

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says: “What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.

Jeremiah 31:32

It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:22

Finally the Lord could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.

Jeremiah 44:23

You have sacrificed to other gods! You have sinned against the Lord! You have not obeyed the Lord! You have not followed his laws, his statutes, and his decrees! That is why this disaster that is evident to this day has happened to you.”

Jeremiah 44:4

I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.

Jeremiah 44:8

That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.’”

Jeremiah 8:9

Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom do they really have?

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, because they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 2:3

He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.

Leviticus 26:15

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant –

Jonah 2:8

Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.

John 2:8

Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the head steward,” and they did.

1 Corinthians 8:4

With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that “an idol in this world is nothing,” and that “there is no God but one.”

Deuteronomy 18:10

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 29:24

Then all the nations will ask, “Why has the Lord done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?”

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

Deuteronomy 32:31

For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

1 Samuel 12:21

You should not turn aside after empty things that can’t profit and can’t deliver, since they are empty.