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

therefore shall the wise be confounded. They shall be afraid and taken, for lo, they have cast out the word of the LORD: what wisdom can then be among them?

His covenant

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

Ye stand here this day every one of you before the LORD your God: both the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officers and all the men of Israel;

not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, sayeth the LORD:

Testimonies

But see that ye keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his witnesses and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,

And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, sending them betimes: for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies.

Howbeit, I sent unto them my servants all the prophets: I rose up early, I sent unto them, and gave them warning. 'O do no such abominable things, and things that I hate.'

Vanity

They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation.

Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.

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

They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

And he said unto them, "Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast." And they bare it.

Became vain

Thus sayeth the LORD unto you, "What unfaithfulness found your fathers in me, that they went so far away from me, falling to lightness, and being so vain?

inasmuch as when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations. And their foolish hearts were blinded.

To speak of meat dedicated unto idols, we are sure that there is none idol in the world: and that there is none other God but one.

Concerning whom

And they walked in the ordinance of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel, and in the things which the kings of Israel had made.

Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?'

And he did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

General references

They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.