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2 Kings 17:19

and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Babylon;   Judgments;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Fear;   Following;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Unbelief;   Vanity;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Egypt;   Shalmaneser;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Phoenice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dan;   High Place;   Host of Heaven;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Samaria;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Shalmanezer;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Hezekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Kings, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God but lived according to the customs Israel had practiced.
Hebrew Names Version
Also Yehudah didn't keep the mitzvot of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Yisra'el which they made.
King James Version
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
English Standard Version
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.
New Century Version
But even Judah did not obey the commands of the Lord their God. They did what the Israelites had done,
New English Translation
Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel's example.
Amplified Bible
Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God either, but walked in the customs which Israel introduced.
New American Standard Bible
Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God either, but they followed the customs which Israel had introduced.
World English Bible
Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet Iudah kept not the commandements of the Lord their God, but walked according to the facion of Israel, which they vsed.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes which Israel had made.
Contemporary English Version
but they also disobeyed the Lord 's commands and acted like the Israelites.
Complete Jewish Bible
(However, neither did Y'hudah obey the mitzvot of Adonai their God; rather they lived according to the customs of Isra'el.)
Darby Translation
Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
Easy-to-Read Version
But even the people of Judah did not obey the commands of the Lord their God. They lived just as the Israelites had.
George Lamsa Translation
Also the children of Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel who had done that which is evil in the sight of the LORD and provoked him to anger all the days.
Good News Translation
But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the Lord their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced,
Literal Translation
Also Judah did not keep the commands of Jehovah their God, and they walked in the statutes of Israel that they had made.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nether dyd Iuda kepe the commaundemetes of the LORDE their God, but walked after the customes of Israel, which they dyd.
American Standard Version
Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Bible in Basic English
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, Iuda also kept not the commaundementes of the Lorde their God, but walked in the ceremonies of Israel whiche they made.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised.
King James Version (1611)
Also Iudah kept not the Commandements of the Lord their God, but walked in the Statutes of Israel which they made.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Nay even Juda kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practised, and rejected the Lord.
English Revised Version
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But nether Juda hym silf kepte the heestis of `his Lord God, netheles he erride, and yede in the errour of Israel, whiche it wrouyte.
Young's Literal Translation
Also Judah hath not kept the commands of Jehovah their God, and they walk in the statutes of Israel that they had made.
Update Bible Version
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
New King James Version
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
New Living Translation
But even the people of Judah refused to obey the commands of the Lord their God, for they followed the evil practices that Israel had introduced.
New Life Bible
Even Judah did not keep the Laws of the Lord their God. They walked in the ways which Israel had started.
New Revised Standard
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even Judah, kept not the commandments of Yahweh their God, - but walked in the statutes of Israel, which they had made.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.
Revised Standard Version
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

Contextual Overview

7All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods 8and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. 9The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. 10They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. 11They burned incense on all the high places like the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. 12They served idols, although the LORD had told them, "You shall not do this thing." 13Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, "Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets." 14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. 15They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. 16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Also Judah: 1 Kings 14:22, 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Chronicles 21:11, 2 Chronicles 21:13, Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 3:8-11, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52, Ezekiel 22:2-16, Ezekiel 23:4-13

walked: 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Kings 8:27, 2 Kings 16:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:15 - and putteth 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 2 Chronicles 12:1 - all Israel 2 Chronicles 17:4 - not after Jeremiah 14:19 - utterly Ezekiel 23:13 - that they Hosea 4:15 - yet Hosea 5:5 - Judah Hosea 12:2 - and will Amos 2:4 - Judah

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."
Genesis 17:3
Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
Genesis 17:6
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
Genesis 17:9
God also said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep My covenant, you and your descendants for the generations to come.
Genesis 17:10
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Genesis 17:13
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:14
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."
Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."
Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God,.... But were infected with the idolatry of the ten tribes, and drawn into it by their example, and persisted therein, notwithstanding what befell the ten tribes; which are aggravations of the sins of them both, see Jeremiah 3:7,

but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made; worshipping the calves as they did, particularly in the times of Ahaz, he setting the example, see 2 Kings 16:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This verse and the next are parenthetical. Here again, as in 2 Kings 17:13, the writer is led on from his account of the sins and punishment of the Israelites to glance at the similar sins and similar punishment of the Jews.

It was the worst reproach which could be urged against any Jewish king, that he “walked in the way of the kings of Israel” 2Ki 8:18; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 28:2. The Baal worship is generally the special sin at which the phrase is leveled; but the meaning here seems to be wider. Compare Micah 6:16.


 
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