2 Kings 17:33
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New International Version (©2011)
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.

New Living Translation (©2007)
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.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They feared the LORD and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They feared the LORD, but they also worshiped their own gods according to the custom of the nations where they had been deported from.

International Standard Version (©2012)
While they continued to fear the LORD, they served their own gods, following the custom of the nations whom they had carried away from there.

NET Bible (©2006)
They were worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They worshiped the LORD but also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had come.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there.

American King James Version
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there.

American Standard Version
They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own gods according to the custom of the nations out of which they were brought to Samaria:

Darby Bible Translation
They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods after the manner of the nations, whence they had been carried away.

English Revised Version
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

Webster's Bible Translation
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.

World English Bible
They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah they are fearing, and their gods they are serving, according to the custom of the nations whence they removed them.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:24-41 The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigned submission in unconverted men; like those brought from different countries to inhabit Israel. But such will form unworthy thoughts of God, will expect to please him by outward forms, and will vainly try to reconcile his service with the love of the world and the indulgence of their lusts. May that fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, possess our hearts, and influence our conduct, that we may be ready for every change. Wordly settlements are uncertain; we know not whither we may be driven before we die, and we must soon leave the world; but the righteous hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken from him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 33. - They feared the Lord, and served their own gods. This syncretism, this mixed religion, is so surprising to the writer, and so abhorrent to his religious sentiments, that he cannot but dwell upon it, not shrinking from repeating himself (see vers. 32, 33, 41), in order to arrest the reader's attention, and point out to him the folly and absurdity of such conduct. The practice was still going on in his own day (vers. 34, 41), and may have had attractions for the descendants of the small Israelite population which had been left in the land. After the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence; rather, after the manner of the nations from whom they (i.e. the authorities) carried them away; i.e. after the manner of their countrymen at home. The translation of the Revised Version gives the sense, while changing the construction - "after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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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Israel's Cities Resettled by Foreigners
…32So they feared the LORD, and made to themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places. 33They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there. 34To this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel; …

2 Kings 17:32 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.
2 Kings 17:34 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.