2 Kings 17:40

New King James Version

However they did not obey, but they followed their former rituals.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the Lord had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel,

2 Kings 17:12

for they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

2 Kings 17:8

and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there you will serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

2 Kings 17:39

But the Lord your God you shall fear; and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day.