2 Kings 17:40

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They would not listen, however, but continued to practice their former custom.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:12

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

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They do not worship the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

2 Kings 17:39

but you shall worship the Lord your God; he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations worshiped the Lord but also served their carved images; to this day their children and their children’s children continue to do as their ancestors did.

2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel and in the customs that the kings of Israel had introduced.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Cushites change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve gods made by human hands, objects of wood and stone that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.