2 Kings 17:40 - Tree of Life Version

⁴⁰ Yet they did not listen, but they continued 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.

2 Kings 17:40 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:12

They worshipped idols, about which Adonai had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

2 Kings 17:34

Up to this day, they follow their former customs. Nor do they fear Adonai, or follow the statutes, the ordinances, the Torah or the mitzvot that Adonai commanded the children of Jacob—whom He had renamed Israel.

2 Kings 17:39

but Adonai your God will you fear. Then He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”

2 Kings 17:41

So while these nations feared Adonai, they also worshipped their idols. Their children and grandchildren do as their fathers did to this day.

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.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Or the leopard his spots? So, could you do good, that are accustomed to doing evil?

Deuteronomy 4:28

There you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which do not see or hear or eat or smell.