and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
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and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
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For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
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and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to 2 Kings 17:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 20:3-5 “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 34:14 for you shall worship no other god; for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Leviticus 26:1 “ ‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:15-19 Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire, lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Deuteronomy 4:23-25 Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you. For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. When you shall father children and children’s children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in Yahweh your God’s sight to provoke him to anger,
- Deuteronomy 5:7-9 “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
- Deuteronomy 12:4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD…
2Ki 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
Ver. 12. Whereof the Lord had said, Ye shall not.] But they did it the rather; taking occasion by the law, that their sin might appear to be exceeding sinful. {Rom 7:13} Such is the canker of our vile natures, that the more God forbids a thing, the more we bid for it. Nitimur in vetitum semper petimusque negata.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For they served idols,.... Baalim, as the Targum; dunghill…
For they served idols,.... Baalim, as the Targum; dunghill gods, as the word signifies, as they are often called in Scripture; and Sterculius was one of the names of Saturn, an Heathen deity, which he had, as is supposed, by his finding out the method of making land fruitful with dung (i):
whereof the Lord said unto them, ye shall not do this thing; see Exo 20:3.
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(i) Vid. Macrob. l. 1. c. 7. Lactant. de fals. Relig. l. 1. c. 20.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Abominations. Hebrew gillulim, "idols of dung." --- Thing. Literally,…
Abominations. Hebrew gillulim, "idols of dung." --- Thing. Literally, "word."
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 12. idols, whereof the Lord had said] The prohibition…
12. idols, whereof the Lord had said] The prohibition is given in the Ten Commandments (Exo_20:4) and repeated in many parts of the Law (cf. Deu_4:16; Deu_5:8; Deu_27:15).
Ye shall not do this thing] The LXX. adds ‘unto the Lord’ τῷ κυρίῳ. This addition, though unsupported by the Hebrew, is in harmony with Deu_12:31, where after a warning against the practices of the heathen, it is added, ‘Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God’. Cf. also Deu_12:4. The golden calves were set up by Jeroboam as a form of worship to Jehovah.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (12) For they served idols.—Rather, and they served the…
(12) For they served idols.—Rather, and they served the dunglings; a term of contempt used in 1Ki_15:19; Deu_29:16, where see Note.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For they served idols; rather, and they served idols.…
For they served idols; rather, and they served idols. The sense flows on from ver. 7, each verso being joined to the preceding one by the van connective. Gillulim, the term translated "idols," is a word rarely used, except by Ezekiel, with whom it is common. "It contains," as Bahr says, "a subordinate contemptuous and abusive signification;" the primary meaning of galal being "dung," "ordure." Whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing (see Exo_20:4, Exo_20:5, Exo_20:23; Deu_4:16-18, etc.)
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