2 Kings 17:37
Good News Translation
You shall always obey the laws and commands that I wrote for you. You shall not obey other gods,

New Revised Standard Version
The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to observe. You shall not worship other gods;

Contemporary English Version
Never worship any other god, always obey my laws and teachings,

New American Bible
You must be careful always to observe the statutes and ordinances, the law and commandment, which he wrote for you; you must not venerate other gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.

the statutes

Leviticus 19:37 Keep all my precepts, and all my judgments: and do them. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:4,45 But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:31-33 But stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all my commandments, and ceremonies and judgments: which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land, which I will give them for a possession. . . .

Deuteronomy 6:1,2 These are the precepts, and ceremonies, and judgments, which the Lord your God commanded that I should teach you, and that you should do them in the land into which you pass over to possess it: . . .

Deuteronomy 12:32 What I command thee, that only do thou to the Lord: neither add any thing, nor diminish.

1 Chronicles 29:19 And give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, that he may keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy ceremonies, and do all things: and build the house, for which I have provided the charges.

Psalm 19:8-11 The justices of the Lord are right, rejoicing hearts: the commandment of the Lord is lightsome, enlightening the eyes. . . .

Psalm 105:44,45 And he gave them the lands of the Gentiles: and they possessed the labours of the people: . . .

wrote for you

Deuteronomy 31:9,11 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel. . . .

Nehemiah 9:13,14 Thou camest down also to mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from heaven, and thou gavest them right judgments, and the law of truth, ceremonies, and good precepts. . . .

and ye shall not

2 Kings 17:35 With whom he made a covenant, and charged them, saying: You shall not fear strange gods, nor shall you adore them, nor worship them, nor sacrifice to them.

Context
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36But the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, with great power, and a stretched out arm, him shall you fear, and him shall you adore, and to him shall you sacrifice. 37And the ceremonies, and judgments, and law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do them always: and you shall not fear strange gods.38And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship strange Gods,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:32
Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

2 Kings 17:38
And the covenant that he made with you, you shall not forget: neither shall ye worship strange Gods,

2 Kings 17:36
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