Howbeit, they did not hearken, but did after their former manner. ] They did not repent of their idolatries, but persisted in them, and even when they were in captivity in Assyria, or such of them as were left in the land.
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and the covenant that I have made with you ye do not forget, and ye do not fear other gods;
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but Jehovah your God ye do fear, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies;'
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and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,
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and these nations are fearing Jehovah, and their graven images they have served, both their sons and their sons' sons; as their fathers did, they are doing unto this day.
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