2 Kings 17:33
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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.
Read 2 Kings 17:33 Using Other Translations
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
And though they worshiped the LORD, they continued to follow their own gods according to the religious customs of the nations from which they came.
What does 2 Kings 17:33 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Kings 17:33
They feared the Lord, and served their own gods
Worshipped both:
after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from
thence;
the Israelites, whom they had carried captive from Samaria; they
worshipped the Lord in their idols, as they did, who pretended to
worship God in the calves; so they worshipped the supreme God in
and by their idols, and made use of them as mediators with him.
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