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2 Kings 17:12
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10 aThey set up for themselves sacred pillars and bwooden images con every high hill and under every green tree.  
11 There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger,
12 for they served idols, aof which the Lord had said to them, b“You shall not do this thing.”  
13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His aprophets, bevery seer, saying, c“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.”  
14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but astiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who bdid not believe in the Lord their God.  
15 And they arejected His statutes band His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed cidols, dbecame idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should enot do like them.  
16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, amade for themselves a molded image and two calves, bmade a wooden image and worshiped all the chost of heaven, dand served Baal.  
17 aAnd they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, bpracticed witchcraft and soothsaying, and csold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.  
18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left abut the tribe of Judah alone.  
19 Also aJudah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.  
20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and adelivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His bsight.  
Verse Comparison: 2 Kings 17:12

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American Standard Version
and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Amplified® Bible
And they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

Contemporary English Version
Even though the LORD had commanded the Israelites not to worship idols, they did it anyway.

Darby English Version
and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

Good News Bible
and disobeyed the LORD's command not to worship idols.

King James Version
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

New American Standard Bible
They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

New International Version
They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, "You shall not do this."

New King James Version
for they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

Revised Standard Version
and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not do this."

Young's Literal Translation
and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'


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