2 Kings 17:29-39

29 Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.
30 The people from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, those from Kuthah made Nergal, and those from Hamath made Ashima;
31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire as sacrifices to Adrammelek and Anammelek, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32 They worshiped the LORD, but they also appointed all sorts of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places.
33 They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.
34 To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the LORD nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
35 When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: “Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them.
36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices.
37 You must always be careful to keep the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
38 Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods.
39 Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”

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Cross References 13

  • 1. Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 11:13
  • 2. S Leviticus 26:30; S 1 Kings 12:31
  • 3. Micah 4:5
  • 4. 2 Kings 19:37
  • 5. S ver 24
  • 6. S 1 Kings 12:31
  • 7. S Genesis 17:5; Genesis 32:28; Genesis 35:10; S 1 Kings 18:31
  • 8. S Exodus 20:5; Judges 6:10
  • 9. S Exodus 20:3
  • 10. S Exodus 3:20; Exodus 6:6; Psalms 136:12
  • 11. Deuteronomy 5:32
  • 12. S Leviticus 19:37
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 4:23; Deuteronomy 6:12
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