2 Kings 17:40

THE MESSAGE

But they didn't pay any attention. They kept doing what they'd always done. As it turned out, all the time these people were putting on a front of worshiping God , they were at the same time involved with their local idols. And they're still doing it. Like father, like son.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
However, these nations would not listen but continued observing their former practices.

Hebrew Names Version
However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.

King James Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

English Standard Version
However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

New Century Version
But the Israelites did not listen. They kept on doing the same things they had done before.

New English Translation
But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

Amplified Bible
However, they did not listen, but they acted in accordance with their former custom.

New American Standard Bible
However, they did not listen, but they kept acting in accordance with their earlier custom.

World English Bible
However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howbeit they obeyed not, but did after their olde custome.

Legacy Standard Bible
However, they did not listen, but they were acting according to their earlier custom.

Berean Standard Bible
But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.

Contemporary English Version
But the people living in Israel ignored that command and kept on following their old customs.

Complete Jewish Bible
However, they didn't listen, but followed their old [pagan] practices.

Darby Translation
And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the Israelites did not listen. They kept on doing the same things they did before.

George Lamsa Translation
However they did not hearken, but they did according to their former customs.

Good News Translation
But those people would not listen, and they continued to follow their old customs.

Lexham English Bible
They did not listen but kept on doing according to their former customs.

Literal Translation
But they did not listen, but did according to their former custom.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles they wolde not herken, but dyd after their olde custome.

American Standard Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Bible in Basic English
But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howebeit, they dyd not hearken, but did after their olde custome.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

King James Version (1611)
Howbeit, they did not hearken, but they did after their former maner.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Neither shall ye comply with their practice, which they follow.

English Revised Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe thei herden not, but diden bi her formere custom.

Young's Literal Translation
and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,

Update Bible Version
Nevertheless they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

New King James Version
However they did not obey, but they followed their former rituals.

New Living Translation
But the people would not listen and continued to follow their former practices.

New Life Bible
But they did not listen. They followed the ways of times past.

New Revised Standard
They would not listen, however, but they continued to practice their former custom.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howbeit they hearkened not, - but, according to their own former custom, were they offering.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old custom.

Revised Standard Version
However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
However, they did not listen, but they did according to their earlier custom.

Contextual Overview

²⁴The king of Assyria brought in people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and relocated them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the exiled Israelites. They moved in as if they owned the place and made themselves at home. When the Assyrians first moved in, God was just another god to them; they neither honored nor worshiped him. Then God sent lions among them and people were mauled and killed. ²⁶ This message was then sent back to the king of Assyria: "The people you brought in to occupy the towns of Samaria don't know what's expected of them from the god of the land, and now he's sent lions and they're killing people right and left because nobody knows what the god of the land expects of them." ²⁷ The king of Assyria ordered, "Send back some priests who were taken into exile from there. They can go back and live there and instruct the people in what the god of the land expects of them." ²⁸ One of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came back and moved into Bethel. He taught them how to honor and worship God . ²⁹But each people that Assyria had settled went ahead anyway making its own gods and setting them up in the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines that the citizens of Samaria had left behind—a local custom-made god for each people: for Babylon, Succoth Benoth; for Cuthah, Nergal; for Hamath, Ashima; for Avva, Nibhaz and Tartak; for Sepharvaim, Adrammelech and Anammelech (people burned their children in sacrificial offerings to these gods!). ³²They honored and worshiped God , but not exclusively—they also appointed all sorts of priests, regardless of qualification, to conduct a variety of rites at the local fertility shrines. They honored and worshiped God , but they also kept up their devotions to the old gods of the places they had come from. ³⁴And they're still doing it, still worshiping any old god that has nostalgic appeal to them. They don't really worship God —they don't take seriously what he says regarding how to behave and what to believe, what he revealed to the children of Jacob whom he named Israel. God made a covenant with his people and ordered them, "Don't honor other gods: Don't worship them, don't serve them, don't offer sacrifices to them. Worship God , the God who delivered you from Egypt in great and personal power. Reverence and fear him. Worship him. Sacrifice to him. And only him! All the things he had written down for you, directing you in what to believe and how to behave—well, do them for as long as you live. And whatever you do, don't worship other gods! And the covenant he made with you, don't forget your part in that. And don't worship other gods! Worship God , and God only—he's the one who will save you from enemy oppression." ⁴⁰But they didn't pay any attention. They kept doing what they'd always done. As it turned out, all the time these people were putting on a front of worshiping God , they were at the same time involved with their local idols. And they're still doing it. Like father, like son.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they did not: Jeremiah 13:23

but they did: 2 Kings 17:8, 2 Kings 17:12, 2 Kings 17:34, Deuteronomy 4:28

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, they did not hearken, but did after their former manner. They did not repent of their idolatries, but persisted in them, and even when they were in captivity in Assyria, or such of them as were left in the land.