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Complete Jewish Bible

2 Chronicles 7:19

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;

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,
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;
Bible in Basic English
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:
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 Adonai appeared to Shlomo by night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up the sky, so that there is no rain; or if I order locusts to devour the land; or if I send an epidemic of sickness among my people; 14 then, if my people, who bear my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears will pay attention to the prayer made in this place. 16 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house, so that my name can be there forever; my eyes and heart will always be there. 17 As for you, if you will live in my presence, as did David your father, doing everything I have ordered you to do, and keeping my laws and rulings; 18 then I will establish the throne of your rulership, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You will never lack a man to be ruler in Isra'el.' 19 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; 20 then I will pull them up by the roots out of the land I have given them. This house, which I consecrated for my name, I will eject from my sight; and I will make it an example to avoid and an object of scorn among all peoples. 21 This house, now so exalted — everyone passing by will be shocked at the sight of it and will ask, ‘Why has Adonai done this 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 animal you are to take seven couples, and of the animals that are not clean, one couple;
Genesis 7:3
also of the birds in the air take seven couples — in order to preserve their species throughout the earth.
Genesis 7:6
Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.
Genesis 7:9
couples, male and female, went in to Noach in the ark, as God had ordered Noach.
Job 12:15
When he holds back water, there is drought; when he sends it out, it overruns the land.
Jeremiah 3:23
Indeed the hills have proved a delusion, likewise the orgies on the mountains. Truly the salvation of Isra'el is in Adonai our God.
2 Peter 3:6
and that by means of these things the world of that time was flooded with water and destroyed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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