Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
However, they did not listen, but they did according to their earlier custom.
King James Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
Holman Bible
However, they would not listen but continued practicing their former customs.
International Standard Version
But they wouldn't listen. Instead, they did what they had been doing before.
A Conservative Version
However they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
American Standard Version
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
Amplified
However, they did not listen, but they acted in accordance with their former custom.
Bible in Basic English
But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.
Darby Translation
And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs.
Julia Smith Translation
And they did not hearken, but! they were doing according to their former judgments.
King James 2000
However they did not hearken, but they did according to their former manner.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They did not listen but kept on doing according to their former customs.
Modern King James verseion
But they did not listen, but they followed after their former way.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Howbeit, they heard not, but did after the old manner.
NET Bible
But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.
New Heart English Bible
However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.
The Emphasized Bible
Howbeit they hearkened not, - but, according to their own former custom, were they offering.
Webster
Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
World English Bible
However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.
Youngs Literal Translation
and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,
Themes
Judgments » Delivered » Into the hands of the assyrians
Samaria » Country of » Foreign colonies distributed among the cities of, by the king of assyria
Interlinear
Shama`
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 17:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Repopulated With Foreign Captives
39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 40 However, they did not listen, but they did according to their earlier custom. 41 So these Gentiles feared the LORD and served their graven images, and likewise their sons and their grandsons; as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Phrases
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:28
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
2 Kings 17:8
and walked in the statutes of the Gentiles, whom the LORD had cast out from before the sons of Israel, and in the statutes of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
2 Kings 17:12
serving idols, of which the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this.
2 Kings 17:34
Unto this day they do after the former manners; they do not fear the LORD, neither do they keep his statutes nor his ordinances nor the law and the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob, whom he named Israel,
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Likewise ye also cannot do good, being taught to do evil.