Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.
New American Standard Bible
They feared the Lord and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.
King James Version
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
Holman Bible
They feared the Lord, but they also worshiped their own gods
International Standard Version
While they continued to fear the LORD, they served their own gods, following the custom of the nations whom they had carried away from there.
A Conservative Version
They feared LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
American Standard Version
They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Amplified
They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods, following the custom of the nations from among whom they had been sent into exile.
Darby Translation
They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods after the manner of the nations, whence they had been carried away.
Julia Smith Translation
They were fearing Jehovah, and were serving their gods according to the judgment of the nations who carried them into exile from thence,
King James 2000
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from there.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the customs of the nations from which they were deported.
Modern King James verseion
They feared Jehovah and served their own gods, according to the custom of the nations whom they removed from there.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And so they feared the LORD, and yet served their own gods after the manner of the people from whence they were brought.
NET Bible
They were worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.
New Heart English Bible
And they worshiped the LORD, yet served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
The Emphasized Bible
Yahweh, were they revering, - and yet, their own gods, were they serving, according to the custom of the nations from whence they had brought them away captive.
Webster
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
World English Bible
They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah they are fearing, and their gods they are serving, according to the custom of the nations whence they removed them.
Themes
Judgments » Delivered » Into the hands of the assyrians
Samaria » Country of » Foreign colonies distributed among the cities of, by the king of assyria
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 17:33
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Context Readings
Israel Repopulated With Foreign Captives
32 So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places. 33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners. 34 So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;
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Cross References
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
2 Kings 17:41
So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.
Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Luke 16:13
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Hosea 10:2
Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
Zephaniah 1:5
And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,