2 Kings 17:40 - Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ Yet truly, they did not listen to this. Instead, they acted in accord with their earlier custom.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ However, they did not listen, but they did as they had done formerly.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ But they wouldn’t listen. Instead, they continued doing their former religious practices.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ But they did not hearken: but did according to their old custom.

2 Kings 17:40 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:12

And they worshipped impurities, concerning which the Lord instructed them that they should not do this word.

2 Kings 17:34

Even to the present day, they follow the ancient customs; they do not fear the Lord, and they do not keep his ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and commandment, which the Lord had instructed to the sons of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

2 Kings 17:39

But you shall fear the Lord, your God. And he will rescue you from the hand of all your enemies."

2 Kings 17:41

And such were these nations: to some extent fearing the Lord, yet nevertheless also serving their idols. As for their sons and grandsons, just as their fathers acted, so also did they act, even to the present day.

2 Kings 17:8

And they walked according to the rituals of the nations that the Lord had consumed in the sight of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel. For they had acted similarly.

Jeremiah 13:23

If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.

Deuteronomy 4:28

And there, you will serve gods which were fabricated by the hands of men: gods of wood and of stone, who neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.