2 Kings 17:13

13 And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

2 Kings 17:13 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 17:13

Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by
all the prophets, [and by] all the seers
Against their sins, reproving them for them, dehorting them from them, exhorting them to repent and leave them; as in all preceding reigns, by Ahijah the Shilonite, by Elijah and Elisha, by Hosea, Amos, and Micah, and others:

saying, turn ye from your ways;
repent of them, and reform from them, worship of the calves particularly:

and keep my commandments, and my statutes, according to all the law
which I commanded your fathers;
which was given them and enjoined them at Mount Sinai:

and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets;
by whom he put them in mind of them, explained them, and urged obedience to them.

2 Kings 17:13 In-Context

11 and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah,

12 and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'

13 And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

14 and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

15 and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;