2 Kings 17:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

They rejected

Jeremiah 8:9

His covenant

Exodus 24:6

Deuteronomy 29:10

Jeremiah 31:32

Testimonies

Vanity

Became vain

Jeremiah 2:5

Romans 1:21

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning whom

2 Kings 17:8

Deuteronomy 12:30

2 Chronicles 33:2

General references

Psalm 78:10

Jonah 2:8

Bible References

They rejected

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is in them?

His covenant

And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God: your chiefs of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of my taking them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.

Testimonies

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending; because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling-place.

But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

And I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing which I hate!

Vanity

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.

and turn ye not aside; for it would be after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and wherewith they made Israel to sin, provoking Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

They that make them are like unto them, every one that confideth in them.

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

And he says to them, Draw out now, and carry it to the feast-master. And they carried it.

Became vain

Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?

Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

concerning then the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God save one.

Concerning whom

and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

take heed to thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow after them, after that they are destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.

General references

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.