2 Kings 17:40
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
2 Kings 17:40 in other translations
| BSB | But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs. |
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| WEB | However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before. |
| ASV | Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. |
| YLT | and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing, |
| DARBY | And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs. |
| BBE | But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way. |
| Webster | Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. |
What does 2 Kings 17:40 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 17:24-41
The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigned submission in unconverted men; like those brought from different countries to inhabit Israel. But such will form unworthy thoughts of God, will expect to please him by outward forms, and will vainly try to reconcile his service with the love of the world and the indulgence of their lusts. May that fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of…
2 Kings 17:40 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 17:40
- Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
- Deuteronomy 4:28
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
- 2 Kings 17:34
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
- 2 Kings 17:12
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
- 2 Kings 17:8
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
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Context
- 2 Kings 17:39
But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
- 2 Kings 17:40
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
- 2 Kings 17:41
So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
2 Kings 17:40 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Empero ellos no escucharon; antes hicieron según su costumbre antigua. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et ils n’écoutèrent pas, mais ils firent selon leur première coutume. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aber sie hörten nicht, sondern taten nach ihrer früheren Weise. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Illi vero non audierunt, sed juxta consuetudinem suam pristinam perpetrabant. |