2 Kings 17:40 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁴⁰ However, these nations would not listen but continued observing their former practices.

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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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

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

They served idols, although the Lord had told them, ‘You must not do this.’

2 Kings 17:34

They are still observing the former practices to this day. None of them fear the Lord or observe the statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments that the Lord had commanded the descendants of Jacob, whom he had given the name Israel.

2 Kings 17:39

but fear the Lord your God, and he will rescue you from all your enemies.’

2 Kings 17:41

They feared the Lord but also served their idols. Still today, their children and grandchildren continue doing as their ancestors did.

2 Kings 17:8

They lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites  and according to what the kings of Israel did.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.