And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 21:9 - King James 2000 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they would not listen; and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations did whom the Lord destroyed before the Israelites! American Standard Version (1901) But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel. Common English Bible But they wouldn’t listen. Manasseh led them into doing even more evil than the nations the LORD had wiped out before the Israelites. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, they did not listen. Instead, they were seduced by Manasseh, so that they did evil, more so than the nations that the Lord crushed before the face of the sons of Israel. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. |
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the nations, which the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets who testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
And you shall know that I am the LORD: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the nations that are round about you.
Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
Then say you, Thus says the Lord GOD, The city sheds blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and makes idols within herself to defile herself.
And she has changed my ordinances into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my ordinances and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
Neither have we hearkened unto your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after a human commandment.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent unto you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her wings, and you would not!
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they would not have sin: but now they have no cover for their sin.
Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;