2 Kings 17:29
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.”
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“Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and they are making each nation its gods, and place <FI>them<Fi> in the houses of the high places that the Samaritans have made, each nation in their cities where they are dwelling.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 17:29 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
- 1 Kings 13:32for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Psalms 135:15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Isaiah 44:9All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.
- Jeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Hosea 8:5He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
- Micah 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
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