2 Kings 17:40
◄  2 Kings 17:40  ►
New International Version (©2011)
They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But the people would not listen and continued to follow their former practices.

English Standard Version (©2001)
However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
However, they did not listen, but they did according to their earlier custom.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
However, they would not listen but continued practicing their former customs.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But they wouldn't listen. Instead, they did what they had been doing before.

NET Bible (©2006)
But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The people of Israel had refused to listen and made up their own rules, as they had done from the beginning.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
However they did not hearken, but they did according to their former manner.

American King James Version
However, they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.

American Standard Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they did not hearken, but did according to their old custom.

Darby Bible Translation
And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs.

English Revised Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

World English Bible
However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.

Young's Literal Translation
and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,

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 40. - Howbeit they did not hearken. The mixed race, with their mixed religion, though professing to be worshippers of Jehovah, paid no attention to the warnings and threatenings of the Law (ver. 34), which were to them a dead letter. But they did after their former manner; i.e. they continued to maintain the syncretism described in vers. 28-33.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

2 Kings 17:40 Parallel Commentaries

2 Kings 17:40 NIV
2 Kings 17:40 NLT
2 Kings 17:40 ESV
2 Kings 17:40 NASB
2 Kings 17:40 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


Israel's Cities Resettled by Foreigners
…39But the LORD your God you shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40However, they did not listen, but they did after their former manner. 41So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they to this day.

2 Kings 17:39 Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies."
2 Kings 17:41 Even while these people were worshiping the LORD, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their ancestors did.