2 Kings 17:12

Green's Literal Translation

and served the idols, of which Jehovah had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They served idols, although the Lord had told them, “You must not do this.”

Hebrew Names Version
and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

King James Version
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

English Standard Version
and they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, "You shall not do this."

New Century Version
They served idols when the Lord had said, "You must not do this."

New English Translation
They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the Lord 's command.

Amplified Bible
And they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

New American Standard Bible
They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

World English Bible
and they served idols, whereof Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And serued idoles: whereof the Lorde had sayd vnto them, Ye shal do no such thing,

Legacy Standard Bible
And they served idols, concerning which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

Berean Standard Bible
They served idols, although the LORD had told them, "You shall not do this thing."

Contemporary English Version
Even though the Lord had commanded the Israelites not to worship idols, they did it anyway.

Complete Jewish Bible
moreover, they served idols, something Adonai had expressly told them not to do.

Darby Translation
and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Easy-to-Read Version
They served idols, and the Lord had said to them, "You must not do this."

George Lamsa Translation
For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Good News Translation
and disobeyed the Lord 's command not to worship idols.

Lexham English Bible
They served idols which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing!"

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& serued the Idols, wherof the LORDE sayde vnto them: Ye shal not do soch a thynge.

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

Bible in Basic English
And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';

King James Version (1611)
For they serued idoles, whereof the Lord had said vnto them, Yee shall not doe this thing.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, Ye shall not do this thing against the Lord.

English Revised Version
and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and worschipiden vnclenesses, of whiche the Lord comaundide to hem, that thei schulden not do this word.

Young's Literal Translation
and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'

Update Bible Version
and they served idols, whereof Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Webster's Bible Translation
For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

New King James Version
for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

New Living Translation
Yes, they worshiped idols, despite the Lord 's specific and repeated warnings.

New Life Bible
They worshiped false gods, about which the Lord had told them, "You must not do this."

New Revised Standard
they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, "You shall not do this."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they served the manufactured gods, as to which Yahweh had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they worshipped abominations, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do this thing.

Revised Standard Version
and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

Contextual Overview

⁷ And it was so because the sons of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and feared other gods, ⁸ and walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made. ⁹ And the sons of Israel secretly did the things which were not right against Jehovah their God, and built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city, ¹⁰ and set up for themselves pillars and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree; ¹¹ and burned incense there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah had removed from their face; and did evil things to provoke Jehovah, ¹² and served the idols, of which Jehovah had said to them, You shall not do this thing. ¹³ And Jehovah testified against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of all His prophets, and every seer, saying, Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the Law that I commanded your fathers, andthat I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets. ¹⁴ And they did not listen, and hardened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not remain faithful to Jehovah their God. ¹⁵ And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and afterthe nations that were around them,of whom Jehovah had commanded them not to do like them. ¹⁶ And they left all the commands of Jehovah their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whereof: Exodus 20:3-5, Exodus 34:14, Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 4:19, Deuteronomy 5:7-9

Ye shall not: Deuteronomy 4:15-19, Deuteronomy 4:23-25, Deuteronomy 12:4

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:15 - concerning whom 2 Kings 17:40 - but they did

Cross-References

Genesis 17:22
And He finished talking with him. And God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the ones born of his house, and all that were bought with his silver, every male among the men of the house of Abraham. And he circumcised the flesh of theirforeskins in that same day, even as Godspoke to him.

Genesis 21:4
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, a son of eight days, as God had commanded him.

Leviticus 12:3
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Luke 1:59
And it happened on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling it by his father's name, Zacharias.

Luke 2:21
And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child His name was called Jesus, the name called by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.

Acts 7:8
And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision; and so he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that outwardly in flesh;

Philippians 3:5
in circumcision, the eighth day, of the race of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; according to Law, a Pharisee;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they served idols,.... Baalim, as the Targum; dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as they are often called in Scripture; and Sterculius was one of the names of Saturn, an Heathen deity, which he had, as is supposed, by his finding out the method of making land fruitful with dung i:

whereof the Lord said unto them, ye shall not do this thing; see

Exodus 20:3.

i Vid. Macrob. l. 1. c. 7. Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 20.