2 Chronicles 7:19

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.'"

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;

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,

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 God appeared to Solomon that very night and said, "I accept your prayer; yes, I have chosen this place as a temple for sacrifice, a house of worship. If I ever shut off the supply of rain from the skies or order the locusts to eat the crops or send a plague on my people, and my people, my God-defined people, respond by humbling themselves, praying, seeking my presence, and turning their backs on their wicked lives, I'll be there ready for you: I'll listen from heaven, forgive their sins, and restore their land to health. From now on I'm alert day and night to the prayers offered at this place. Believe me, I've chosen and sanctified this Temple that you have built: My Name is stamped on it forever; my eyes are on it and my heart in it always. As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived, pure in heart and action, living the life I've set out for you, attentively obedient to my guidance and judgments, then I'll back your kingly rule over Israel—make it a sure thing on a sure foundation. The same covenant guarantee I gave to David your father I'm giving to you, namely, ‘You can count on always having a descendant on Israel's throne.' ¹⁹"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.'"

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
"Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female; and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth. In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."

Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.

Jeremiah 3:22
"We're here! We've come back to you. You're our own true God ! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We're back! Back to our true God , the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God , we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we've been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God ."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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