Devine Scripture

2 Kings 17:40

2 Kings chapter 17 · verse 40 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.39but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

v.40This passage

v.41So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children’s children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Kings 17:12

    and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

  • Jeremiah 13:23

    Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

  • 2 Kings 17:34

    Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

  • Deuteronomy 4:28

    And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • 2 Kings 17:8

    and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.