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Darby's French Translation
2 Rois 17:15
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Ils méprisèrent ses statuts, et l'alliance qu'il avait traitée avec leurs pères, et les témoignages par lesquels il les avait sommés. Ils allèrent après la vanité, et devinrent vains, et après les nations qui étaient autour d'eux, bien que l'Éternel eût défendu de faire comme elles.
Ils rejetèrent ses lois, l'alliance qu'il avait faite avec leurs pères, et les avertissements qu'il leur avait adressés. Ils allèrent après des choses de néant et ne furent eux-mêmes que néant, et après les nations qui les entouraient et que l'Eternel leur avait défendu d'imiter.
Et ils avaient dédaigné ses statuts, et son alliance, qu'il avait traitée avec leurs pères, et ses témoignages, par lesquels il les avait sommés, et avaient marché après la vanité, et étaient devenus vains, et avaient suivi les nations qui étaient autour d'eux, touchant lesquelles l'Eternel avait commandé qu'ils ne fissent point comme elles.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they rejected: Jeremiah 8:9
his covenant: Exodus 24:6-8, Deuteronomy 29:10-15, Deuteronomy 29:25, Deuteronomy 29:26, Jeremiah 31:32
testimonies: Deuteronomy 6:17, Deuteronomy 6:18, 2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Jeremiah 44:4, Jeremiah 44:23
vanity: Deuteronomy 32:21, Deuteronomy 32:31, 1 Samuel 12:21, 1 Kings 16:13, Psalms 115:8, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:15, John 2:8
became vain: Jeremiah 2:5, Romans 1:21-23, 1 Corinthians 8:4
concerning whom: 2 Kings 17:8, 2 Kings 17:11, 2 Kings 17:12, Deuteronomy 12:30, Deuteronomy 12:31, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Chronicles 33:9
Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:15 - despise 1 Samuel 15:23 - thou hast rejected 2 Kings 17:20 - rejected 2 Kings 17:35 - With whom Nehemiah 9:34 - thy testimonies Psalms 78:10 - General Isaiah 5:24 - cast away Jeremiah 23:16 - they make Jeremiah 44:8 - ye provoke Ezekiel 16:44 - As is Hosea 6:7 - transgressed Hosea 8:12 - but Amos 3:13 - and testify Jonah 2:8 - General Hebrews 8:9 - they continued
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers,.... At Sinai and Horeb, see Exodus 24:8,
and his testimonies which he testified against them; calling heaven and earth to witness what he would do to them if they broke his laws, Deuteronomy 4:26, and which were so many testifications of his mind and will what they should do, or otherwise what should be done to them; Ben Gersom also interprets this of the feasts of the passover and tabernacles, which were witnesses of Israel's coming out of Egypt, and of the sanctification and redemption of the firstborn, a testimony of the slaying the firstborn in Egypt:
and they followed vanity; idols, which are vain things for help, can neither hear, see, speak, c.
and became vain as sottish and stupid as the idols they worshipped; which is the usual fruit and effect of idolatry, see Romans 1:21
and went after the heathen that were round about them: imitated them in their idolatrous practices, as the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, c. concerning
whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them of this charge see Deuteronomy 6:13.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As idols are “vanity” and “nothingness,” mere weakness and impotence, so idolators are “vain” and impotent. Their energies have been wasted, their time misspent; they have missed the real object of their existence; their whole life has been a mistake; and the result is utter powerlessness. Literally, the word rendered “vanity” seems to mean “breath” or “vapor” - a familiar image for nonentity. It occurs frequently in the prophets, and especially in Jeremiah (e. g. Jeremiah 2:5; Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 14:22, etc.).
