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2 Chronicles 7:19

But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Blessing;   God;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Solomon;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
However, if you turn away and abandon my statutes and my commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,
Hebrew Names Version
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my mitzvot which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
King James Version
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
English Standard Version
"But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
New Century Version
"But you must follow me and obey the laws and commands I have given you. You must not serve or worship other gods.
New English Translation
"But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,
Amplified Bible
"But if you [people] turn away and abandon My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and you go and serve other gods and worship them,
New American Standard Bible
"But if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
World English Bible
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes and my commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worshippe them,
Legacy Standard Bible
"But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
Berean Standard Bible
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and the commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods,
Contemporary English Version
But if you or any of the people of Israel disobey my laws or start worshiping foreign gods,
Complete Jewish Bible
But if you turn away and abandon my regulations and mitzvot which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, worshipping them;
Darby Translation
But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them;
Easy-to-Read Version
"But if you don't obey my laws and commands that I gave you, and if you worship other gods and serve them,
George Lamsa Translation
But if you turn away from my ways, both you and your children, and shall not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, and shall go and serve the idols of the nations and worship them;
Good News Translation
But if you and your people ever disobey the laws and commands I have given you and worship other gods,
Lexham English Bible
"But if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you all and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them,
Literal Translation
And if you turn away, and you shall forsake My commandments and My statutes that I have placed before you, and shall go and serve other gods and shall bow yourselves to them,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf ye turne backe, and forsake myne ordynaunces and commaundemetes which I haue layed before you, and so go youre waye, and serue other goddes, and worshippe them,
American Standard Version
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But and if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes & my commaundementes which I haue set before you, and shall go and serue other gods, and worship them:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if ye turn away, and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
King James Version (1611)
But if yee turne away and forsake my Statutes and my Commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worship them:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But if ye should turn away, and forsake my ordinances and my commandments, which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them;
English Revised Version
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But if ye turnen awey, and forsake my riytwisnessis and my comaundementis whiche Y settide forth to you, and ye goen, and seruen alien goddis, and worschipen hem,
Update Bible Version
But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
New King James Version
"But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them,
New Living Translation
"But if you or your descendants abandon me and disobey the decrees and commands I have given you, and if you serve and worship other gods,
New Life Bible
"But if you turn away and leave My Laws and My Word which I have given you, if you go and serve other gods and worship them,
New Revised Standard
"But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if, ye yourselves, shall turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, - and shall go and serve other gods, and bow down to them,
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,
Revised Standard Version
"But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
Young's Literal Translation
and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,
THE MESSAGE
"But if you or your sons betray me, ignoring my guidance and judgments, taking up with alien gods by serving and worshiping them, then the guarantee is off: I'll wipe Israel right off the map and repudiate this Temple I've just sanctified to honor my Name. And Israel will be nothing but a bad joke among the peoples of the world. And this Temple, splendid as it now is, will become an object of contempt; tourists will shake their heads, saying, ‘What happened here? What's the story behind these ruins?' Then they'll be told, ‘The people who used to live here betrayed their God , the very God who rescued their ancestors from Egypt; they took up with alien gods, worshiping and serving them. That's what's behind this God-visited devastation.'"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

Contextual Overview

12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made. 13 If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people; 14 If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place. 16 For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times. 17 And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions: 18 Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel. 19 But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship: 20 Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples. 21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

if ye turn away: Leviticus 26:14, Leviticus 26:33-46, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:37-68, 1 Samuel 12:25, 1 Chronicles 28:9

shall go: Deuteronomy 4:23-27, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16, 1 Kings 9:6, 1 Kings 9:7, 1 Kings 11:4-8

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:15 - if ye turn 2 Chronicles 12:2 - because Ezra 5:12 - he gave Proverbs 4:2 - forsake Jeremiah 1:16 - who have Jeremiah 2:17 - in that Jeremiah 9:13 - General Jeremiah 22:5 - if Jeremiah 26:4 - If Jeremiah 29:18 - to be a curse Ezekiel 7:24 - their holy places shall be defiled Hebrews 12:25 - turn away

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;
Genesis 7:3
And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:6
And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
Genesis 7:9
In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.
Job 12:15
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
2 Peter 3:6
And that the world which then was came to an end through the overflowing of the waters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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