2 Kings 17:15

Tree of Life Version

So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:11

So Adonai said to Solomon: “Since you have done this and did not keep My covenant and My statutes that I commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

1 Kings 16:13

for all the sins of Baasa and the sins of his son Elah, which they committed and caused Israel to commit, vexing Adonai God of Israel with their useless idols.

2 Kings 17:8

Instead they followed the customs of the nations, whom Adonai had dispossessed before Bnei-Yisrael, yet which the kings of Israel practiced.

2 Chronicles 24:19

Adonai sent prophets to them to bring them back to Him and although they admonished them, they would not listen.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did evil in the sight of Adonai, just like the abominations of the nations that Adonai had driven out before Bnei-Yisrael.

2 Chronicles 33:9

But Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Adonai destroyed before Bnei-Yisrael.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.

Psalm 115:8

Those making them will become like them —everyone trusting in them.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to walk in His Torah.

Exodus 16:28

Adonai said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My mitzvot and My Torah?

Jeremiah 10:15

They are futile, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Adonai: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They walked after worthless things, becoming worthless themselves?

Jeremiah 31:32

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “I will put My Torah within them. Yes, I will write it on their heart. I will be their God and they will be My people.

Jeremiah 44:22

Then Adonai could no longer endure it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the abominations that you committed! So your land has become a wasteland, a desolation and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 44:23

Because you have burned incense, because you have sinned against Adonai and have not listened to the voice of Adonai, nor walked in His Torah, nor in His statutes, nor in His testimonies—that is why this calamity has befallen you, as it is this day.”

Jeremiah 44:4

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Oh, do not do this loathsome thing that I hate.’

Jeremiah 44:8

You are provoking Me with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to dwell, so that you will be cut off and become a curse and a disgrace among all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 7:26

they did not listen to Me or pay attention. Rather, they stiffened their neck, doing more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men will be put to shame— shattered, trapped. Look! They have rejected Adonai’s word, so what wisdom do they have?

Ezekiel 12:2

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

Ezekiel 2:3

He said to me, “Son of man, I send you to Bnei-Yisrael, to rebellious nations that have been rebelling against Me. They and their fathers have rebelled against Me to this very day.

Leviticus 26:15

and if you reject My statutes and if your soul abhors My ordinances, so that you do not keep all My mitzvot, but instead break My covenant,

Jonah 2:8

As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.

John 2:8

Then He said to them, “Take some water out, and give it to the headwaiter.” And they brought it.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Therefore concerning the eating of idol sacrifices, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, or a fortune-teller, soothsayer, omen reader, or sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 29:24

“Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai, the God of their fathers, which He cut with them when He brought them out from the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them.

Deuteronomy 32:31

Surely their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies judge.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.