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New Century Version

2 Kings 17:19

But even Judah did not obey the commands of the Lord their God. They did what the Israelites had done,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Babylon;   Judgments;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Fear;   Following;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Unbelief;   Vanity;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Egypt;   Shalmaneser;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Samaritans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Kings, the Books of;   Phoenice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dan;   High Place;   Host of Heaven;   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;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Kings, Books of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God but lived according to the customs Israel had practiced.
Hebrew Names Version
Also Yehudah didn't keep the mitzvot of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Yisra'el which they made.
King James Version
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
English Standard Version
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.
New English Translation
Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the Lord their God; they followed Israel's example.
Amplified Bible
Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God either, but walked in the customs which Israel introduced.
New American Standard Bible
Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God either, but they followed the customs which Israel had introduced.
World English Bible
Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet Iudah kept not the commandements of the Lord their God, but walked according to the facion of Israel, which they vsed.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes which Israel had made.
Berean Standard Bible
and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
Contemporary English Version
but they also disobeyed the Lord 's commands and acted like the Israelites.
Complete Jewish Bible
(However, neither did Y'hudah obey the mitzvot of Adonai their God; rather they lived according to the customs of Isra'el.)
Darby Translation
Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.
Easy-to-Read Version
But even the people of Judah did not obey the commands of the Lord their God. They lived just as the Israelites had.
George Lamsa Translation
Also the children of Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel who had done that which is evil in the sight of the LORD and provoked him to anger all the days.
Good News Translation
But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the Lord their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced,
Literal Translation
Also Judah did not keep the commands of Jehovah their God, and they walked in the statutes of Israel that they had made.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nether dyd Iuda kepe the commaundemetes of the LORDE their God, but walked after the customes of Israel, which they dyd.
American Standard Version
Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Bible in Basic English
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, Iuda also kept not the commaundementes of the Lorde their God, but walked in the ceremonies of Israel whiche they made.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised.
King James Version (1611)
Also Iudah kept not the Commandements of the Lord their God, but walked in the Statutes of Israel which they made.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Nay even Juda kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practised, and rejected the Lord.
English Revised Version
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But nether Juda hym silf kepte the heestis of `his Lord God, netheles he erride, and yede in the errour of Israel, whiche it wrouyte.
Young's Literal Translation
Also Judah hath not kept the commands of Jehovah their God, and they walk in the statutes of Israel that they had made.
Update Bible Version
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Webster's Bible Translation
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
New King James Version
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
New Living Translation
But even the people of Judah refused to obey the commands of the Lord their God, for they followed the evil practices that Israel had introduced.
New Life Bible
Even Judah did not keep the Laws of the Lord their God. They walked in the ways which Israel had started.
New Revised Standard
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Even Judah, kept not the commandments of Yahweh their God, - but walked in the statutes of Israel, which they had made.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.
Revised Standard Version
Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

Contextual Overview

7 All these things happened because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God. He had brought them out of Egypt and had rescued them from the power of the king of Egypt, but the Israelites had honored other gods. 8 They lived like the nations the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of them. They lived as their evil kings had shown them, 9 secretly sinning against the Lord their God. They built places to worship gods in all their cities, from the watchtower to the strong, walled city. 10 They put up stone pillars to gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 The Israelites burned incense everywhere gods were worshiped, just as the nations who lived there before them had done, whom the Lord had forced out of the land. The Israelites did wicked things that made the Lord angry. 12 They served idols when the Lord had said, "You must not do this." 13 The Lord used every prophet and seer to warn Israel and Judah. He said, "Stop your evil ways and obey my commands and laws. Follow all the teachings that I commanded your ancestors, the teachings that I gave you through my servants the prophets." 14 But the people would not listen. They were stubborn, just as their ancestors had been who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They rejected the Lord 's laws and the agreement he had made with their ancestors. And they refused to listen to his warnings. They worshiped useless idols and became useless themselves. They did what the nations around them did, which the Lord had warned them not to do. 16 The people rejected all the commands of the Lord their God. They molded statues of two calves, and they made an Asherah idol. They worshiped all the stars of the sky and served Baal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Also Judah: 1 Kings 14:22, 1 Kings 14:23, 2 Chronicles 21:11, 2 Chronicles 21:13, Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 3:8-11, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 16:52, Ezekiel 22:2-16, Ezekiel 23:4-13

walked: 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Kings 8:27, 2 Kings 16:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 27:15 - and putteth 2 Kings 18:6 - kept 2 Chronicles 12:1 - all Israel 2 Chronicles 17:4 - not after Jeremiah 14:19 - utterly Ezekiel 23:13 - that they Hosea 4:15 - yet Hosea 5:5 - Judah Hosea 12:2 - and will Amos 2:4 - Judah

Cross-References

Genesis 17:2
I will make an agreement between us, and I will make you the ancestor of many people."
Genesis 17:3
Then Abram bowed facedown on the ground. God said to him,
Genesis 17:6
I will give you many descendants. New nations will be born from you, and kings will come from you.
Genesis 17:9
Then God said to Abraham, "You and your descendants must keep this agreement from now on.
Genesis 17:10
This is my agreement with you and all your descendants, which you must obey: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Genesis 17:13
Circumcise every baby boy whether he is born in your family or bought as a slave. Your bodies will be marked to show that you are part of my agreement that lasts forever.
Genesis 17:14
Any male who is not circumcised will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my agreement."
Genesis 17:16
I will bless her and give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will come from her."
Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed facedown on the ground and laughed. He said to himself, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth to a child when she is ninety?"
Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God,.... But were infected with the idolatry of the ten tribes, and drawn into it by their example, and persisted therein, notwithstanding what befell the ten tribes; which are aggravations of the sins of them both, see Jeremiah 3:7,

but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made; worshipping the calves as they did, particularly in the times of Ahaz, he setting the example, see 2 Kings 16:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This verse and the next are parenthetical. Here again, as in 2 Kings 17:13, the writer is led on from his account of the sins and punishment of the Israelites to glance at the similar sins and similar punishment of the Jews.

It was the worst reproach which could be urged against any Jewish king, that he “walked in the way of the kings of Israel” 2Ki 8:18; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 28:2. The Baal worship is generally the special sin at which the phrase is leveled; but the meaning here seems to be wider. Compare Micah 6:16.


 
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