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

Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

His covenant

And Moses taketh half of the blood, and putteth in basins, and half of the blood hath he sprinkled on the altar;

Ye are standing to-day, all of you, before Jehovah your God -- your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your authorities -- every man of Israel;

Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

Testimonies

ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers -- rising early and sending -- for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,

'And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

And I send unto you all my servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, saying: I pray you, do not this abomination that I have hated --

Vanity

They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they are vain,

concerning all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

and he saith to them, 'Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare.

Became vain

Thus said Jehovah: What -- have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,

because, having known God they did not glorify Him as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

Concerning whom

and walk in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made;

take heed to thee, lest thou be snared after them, after their being destroyed out of thy presence, and lest thou enquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, and I do so -- even I?

and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

General references

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.