2 Kings 17:12
2 Kings chapter 17 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Context
v.11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
v.12This passage
v.13Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 4:15
Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;
- Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.
- Deuteronomy 5:7
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
- Exodus 34:14
(for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God);
- Exodus 20:3
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.