2 Kings 17:40 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 17:40

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.

YLT

and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,

DBT

And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs.

About this book

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2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

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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 17:12
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kings 17:8
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
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 17:34
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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So they did, and so did the nations that succeeded them. Well might the apostle ask, What then, Are we better than they? No, in no wise, for both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin, Rom. iii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Israel Subdued by Assyria. 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the L ORD , but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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