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Legacy Standard Bible

2 Kings 17:12

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Babylon;   Judgments;   Rulers;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - False;   Idolatry;   Worship, False;   Worship, True and False;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Fear;   Following;   Idolatry;   Vanity;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Forsaking God;   Idolatry;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Egypt;   Shalmaneser;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Idol, idolatry;   Israel;   Samaria, samaritans;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Chronicles, Theology of;   Ethics;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dan;   High Place;   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;  

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,
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!"
Literal Translation
and served the idols, of which Jehovah 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

7Now this happened because the sons of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God—who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt—and they had feared other gods 8and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel, and in the statutes of the kings of Israel which they had made. 9And the sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against Yahweh their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city. 10And they set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which Yahweh had taken away into exile before them; and they did evil things provoking Yahweh to anger. 12And they served idols, concerning which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing." 13Yet Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of all His prophets and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My slaves the prophets." 14However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in Yahweh their God. 15They also rejected His statutes and His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them. 16And they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven 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
So He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had spoken with him.
Genesis 21:4
Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
Leviticus 12:3
Now on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Luke 1:59
And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zechariah, after the name of his father.
Luke 2:21
And when eight days were fulfilled so that they could circumcise Him, His name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb.
Acts 7:8
And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham was the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac was the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
Romans 2:28
For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh.
Philippians 3:5
circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the 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.


 
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