2 Kings 17:13

13 Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets."^[a]

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 They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the Lord had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the Lord.

12 They served idols, although the Lord had told them, "You must not do this."

13 Still, the Lord warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets."

14 But they would not listen. Instead, they became obstinate like their ancestors who did not believe the Lord their God.

15 They rejected His statutes and His covenant He had made with their ancestors and the warnings He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

Footnotes

• [a]. 1 Kg 9:6-9; 18:18-21; Hs 4-6; Am 3-6