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2 Kings 17:13 Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, "Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets."

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Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/2_kings/17.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Again and again the LORD had sent his prophets and seers to warn both Israel and Judah: &#8220;Turn from all your evil ways. Obey my commands and decrees&#8212;the entire law that I commanded your ancestors to obey, and that I gave you through my servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/2_kings/17.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/17.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, &#8220;Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/2_kings/17.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, <i>and by</i> all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments <i>and</i> my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/2_kings/17.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments <i>and</i> My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/2_kings/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets <i>and</i> every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments <i>and</i> My statutes in accordance with all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/2_kings/17.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, &#8220Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/2_kings/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah, through all His prophets <i>and</i> every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/2_kings/17.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Yet Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of all His prophets <i>and</i> every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My slaves the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/2_kings/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes, in accordance with all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/2_kings/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways and keep my commands and statutes according to the whole law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through my servants the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/2_kings/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Still, the LORD warned Israel and Judah through every prophet and every seer, saying, &#8220Turn from your evil ways and keep My commands and statutes according to all the law I commanded your ancestors and sent to you through My servants the prophets.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/2_kings/17.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/2_kings/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />So the LORD made sure that every prophet warned Israel and Judah with these words: "I, the LORD, command you to stop doing sinful things and start obeying my laws and teachings! I gave them to your ancestors, and I told my servants the prophets to repeat them to you." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/2_kings/17.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Yet the LORD testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/2_kings/17.htm">GOD'S WORD&reg; Translation</a></span><br />The LORD had warned Israel and Judah through every kind of prophet and seer, "Turn from your evil ways, and obey my commands and decrees as I commanded your ancestors in all my teachings, the commands I sent to you through my servants the prophets." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/2_kings/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The LORD had sent his messengers and prophets to warn Israel and Judah: "Abandon your evil ways and obey my commands, which are contained in the Law I gave to your ancestors and which I handed on to you through my servants the prophets." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/2_kings/17.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Nevertheless, the LORD had warned both Israel and Judah by means of every prophet and seer: "Turn away from your evil practices and keep my commandments and statutes according to the entire Law that I gave your ancestors and that I sent to you through my servants, the prophets." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/2_kings/17.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, ?Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/2_kings/17.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />The LORD solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, "Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/2_kings/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Yet the LORD testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/2_kings/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/2_kings/17.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.&#8221; <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/2_kings/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And YHWH testifies against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets&#8221;;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/2_kings/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, 'Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/2_kings/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And Jehovah will testify in Israel and in Judah by the hand of all his prophets, all seeing, saying, Turn back from your evil ways and watch my commands, my laws according to all my instruction which I commanded your fathers, and which I Sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/2_kings/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And the Lord testified to them in Israel and in Juda by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/2_kings/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />And the Lord testified to them, in Israel and in Judah, through the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: &#8220;Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts and ceremonies, in accord with the entire law, which I instructed to your fathers, and just as I sent to you by the hand of my servants, the prophets.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_kings/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer: Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your ancestors and which I sent you by my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, &#8220;Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.&#8221;<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah by all his servants the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Repent from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and according to that which I sent to them by my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/2_kings/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And LORD JEHOVAH testified in Israel and in Yehuda by the hand of all of his Servants the Prophets and all the Seers, and he said: &#8220;Return from your evil ways and keep my commands and my covenant according to the Law that I commanded your fathers and like that which I sent to them by the hand of my Servants the Prophets&#8221;<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/2_kings/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />yet the LORD forewarned Israel, and Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying: 'Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets';<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/2_kings/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda, even by the hand of all his prophets, <i>and</i> of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, <i>and</i> all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/17-13.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=5810" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/2_kings/17.htm">Israel Exiled Because of Idolatry</a></span><br>&#8230;<span class="reftext">12</span>They served idols, although the LORD had told them, &#8220;You shall not do this thing.&#8221; <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: b&#601;&#183;ya&#7695; (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">Yet through</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: k&#257;l- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: n&#601;&#183;&#7687;&#299;&#183;&#702;&#333; (N-mpc) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man.">His prophets</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: &#7733;&#257;l (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">and</a> <a href="/hebrew/2374.htm" title="2374: &#7717;&#333;&#183;zeh (N-ms) -- A seer. Active participle of chazah; a beholder in vision; also a compact.">seers,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah&#183;weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/5749.htm" title="5749: way&#183;y&#257;&#183;&#8216;a&#7695; (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify; intensively, to encompass, restore.">warned</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: b&#601;&#183;yi&#347;&#183;r&#257;&#183;&#8217;&#234;l (Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">Israel</a> <a href="/hebrew/3063.htm" title="3063: &#363;&#183;&#7687;&#238;&#183;h&#363;&#183;&#7695;&#257;h (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-proper-ms) -- From yadah; celebrated; Jehudah, the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory.">and Judah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: l&#234;&#183;m&#333;r (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">saying,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: &#7687;&#363; (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">&#8220;Turn</a> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm" title="7451: h&#257;&#183;r&#257;&#183;&#8216;&#238;m (Art:: Adj-mp) -- Bad, evil. From ra'a'; bad or evil.">from your wicked</a> <a href="/hebrew/1870.htm" title="1870: mid&#183;dar&#183;&#7733;&#234;&#183;&#7733;em (Prep-m:: N-cpc:: 2mp) -- Way, road, distance, journey, manner. From darak; a road; figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb.">ways</a> <a href="/hebrew/8104.htm" title="8104: w&#601;&#183;&#353;im&#183;r&#363; (Conj-w:: V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To keep, watch, preserve. A primitive root; properly, to hedge about, i.e. Guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.">and keep</a> <a href="/hebrew/4687.htm" title="4687: mi&#7779;&#183;w&#333;&#183;&#7791;ay (N-fpc:: 1cs) -- Commandment. From tsavah; a command, whether human or divine.">My commandments</a> <a href="/hebrew/2708.htm" title="2708: &#7717;uq&#183;q&#333;&#183;w&#183;&#7791;ay (N-fpc:: 1cs) -- Something prescribed, an enactment, statute. Feminine of choq, and meaning substantially the same.">and statutes,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: k&#601;&#183;&#7733;&#257;l- (Prep-k:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">according to the entire</a> <a href="/hebrew/8451.htm" title="8451: hat&#183;t&#333;&#183;w&#183;r&#257;h (Art:: N-fs) -- Direction, instruction, law. Or torah; from yarah; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch.">Law</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: &#8217;a&#774;&#183;&#353;er (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/6680.htm" title="6680: &#7779;iw&#183;w&#238;&#183;&#7791;&#238; (V-Piel-Perf-1cs) -- To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order. A primitive root; to constitute, enjoin.">I commanded</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: &#8217;e&#7791;- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1.htm" title="1: &#8217;a&#774;&#183;&#7687;&#333;&#183;&#7791;&#234;&#183;&#7733;em (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Father. A primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application).">your fathers</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: wa&#183;&#8217;a&#774;&#183;&#353;er (Conj-w:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: &#353;&#257;&#183;la&#7717;&#183;t&#238; (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">and delivered</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: &#8217;a&#774;&#183;l&#234;&#183;&#7733;em (Prep:: 2mp) -- To, into, towards. ">to you</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: b&#601;&#183;ya&#7695; (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">through</a> <a href="/hebrew/5650.htm" title="5650: &#8216;a&#774;&#183;&#7687;&#257;&#183;&#7695;ay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Slave, servant. From abad; a servant.">My servants</a> <a href="/hebrew/5030.htm" title="5030: han&#183;n&#601;&#183;&#7687;&#238;&#183;&#8217;&#238;m (Art:: N-mp) -- A spokesman, speaker, prophet. From naba'; a prophet or inspired man.">the prophets.&#8221;</a> </span><span class="reftext">14</span>But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.&#8230;<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> &middot; <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/25-4.htm">Jeremiah 25:4-5</a></span><br />And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear. / The prophets told you, &#8216;Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/3-7.htm">Amos 3:7</a></span><br />Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/7-25.htm">Jeremiah 7:25-26</a></span><br />From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. / Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-15.htm">2 Chronicles 36:15-16</a></span><br />Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. / But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/9-29.htm">Nehemiah 9:29-30</a></span><br />You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They turned a stubborn shoulder; they stiffened their necks and would not obey. / You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-9.htm">Isaiah 30:9-10</a></span><br />These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD&#8217;s instruction. / They say to the seers, &#8220;Stop seeing visions!&#8221; and to the prophets, &#8220;Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/33-11.htm">Ezekiel 33:11</a></span><br />Say to them: &#8216;As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?&#8217;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/12-10.htm">Hosea 12:10</a></span><br />I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/1-4.htm">Zechariah 1:4</a></span><br />Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: &#8216;Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.&#8217; But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-34.htm">Luke 13:34</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-51.htm">Acts 7:51-52</a></span><br />You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. / Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers&#8212;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/1-1.htm">Hebrews 1:1-2</a></span><br />On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets. / But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/10-21.htm">Romans 10:21</a></span><br />But as for Israel he says: &#8220;All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.&#8221;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/2-15.htm">1 Thessalonians 2:15-16</a></span><br />who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men, / hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.</p><p class="hdg">testified</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/8-19.htm">Deuteronomy 8:19</a></b></br> And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/31-21.htm">Deuteronomy 31:21</a></b></br> And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/9-29.htm">Nehemiah 9:29,30</a></b></br> And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear&#8230; </p><p class="hdg">and against</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/36-15.htm">2 Chronicles 36:15,16</a></b></br> And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: &#8230; </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8-11</a></b></br> And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also&#8230; </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/4-15.htm">Hosea 4:15</a></b></br> Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, <i>yet</i> let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.</p><p class="hdg">all [heb] the hand of all</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/4-26.htm">Deuteronomy 4:26</a></b></br> I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong <i>your</i> days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joshua/23-16.htm">Joshua 23:16</a></b></br> When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/6-10.htm">Judges 6:10</a></b></br> And I said unto you, I <i>am</i> the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but ye have not obeyed my voice.</p><p class="hdg">seers</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/9-9.htm">1 Samuel 9:9</a></b></br> (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for <i>he that is</i> now <i>called</i> a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/29-29.htm">1 Chronicles 29:29</a></b></br> Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they <i>are</i> written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,</p><p class="hdg">Turn ye</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16-20</a></b></br> Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; &#8230; </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/55-6.htm">Isaiah 55:6,7</a></b></br> Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: &#8230; </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Jeremiah 7:3-7</a></b></br> Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place&#8230; </p><p class="hdg">keep</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/16-16.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-18.htm">Commandments</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-11.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_kings/16-20.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/1_kings/2-42.htm">Forewarned</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-9.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-1.htm">Judah</a> <a href="/2_kings/14-6.htm">Law</a> <a href="/2_kings/14-25.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-19.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/2_samuel/24-11.htm">Seer</a> <a href="/judges/9-37.htm">Seers</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-12.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-8.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/2_samuel/1-16.htm">Testified</a> <a href="/2_kings/15-28.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/2_kings/16-3.htm">Ways</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-16.htm">Commandments</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-17.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-14.htm">Fathers</a> <a href="/nehemiah/13-21.htm">Forewarned</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-20.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-18.htm">Judah</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-26.htm">Law</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-2.htm">Prophet</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-23.htm">Prophets</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/9-22.htm">Seer</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-18.htm">Seers</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-23.htm">Servants</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">Statutes</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm">Testified</a> <a href="/2_kings/17-22.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-6.htm">Ways</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 17</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/17-1.htm">Hoshea the Last King of Israel</a></span><br><span class="reftext">3. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/17-3.htm">Being subdued by Shalmaneser, he conspires against him with So, king of Egypt</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/17-5.htm">Samaria for sinning is led into captivity</a></span><br><span class="reftext">24. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/2_kings/17-24.htm">The strange nations transplanted into Samaria make a mixture of religions.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Prophets like Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, and Hosea played significant roles in warning Israel and Judah. Seers, often synonymous with prophets, were those who had visions from God. This phrase emphasizes the consistent and persistent efforts of God to communicate with His people through various messengers.<p><b>the LORD warned Israel and Judah,</b><br>The division of the kingdom into Israel (the northern kingdom) and Judah (the southern kingdom) occurred after Solomon's reign. Despite their separation, both kingdoms were subject to God's covenant and His laws. The warnings were a call to repentance and a return to covenant faithfulness, highlighting God's desire for both kingdoms to turn back to Him.<p><b>saying, &#8220;Turn from your wicked ways</b><br>This call to repentance is a central theme throughout the Bible. Wicked ways refer to idolatry, injustice, and disobedience to God's commands. The call to turn is an invitation to repentance, a change of heart and action, which is a recurring message in the prophetic books.<p><b>and keep My commandments and statutes,</b><br>The commandments and statutes refer to the laws given by God, primarily through Moses. These laws were meant to guide the Israelites in living a life that was pleasing to God and distinct from the surrounding nations. Obedience to these laws was a sign of faithfulness to the covenant.<p><b>according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers</b><br>The "entire Law" refers to the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, which contain the laws and commandments given to the Israelites. The reference to "your fathers" connects the current generation to their ancestors who received the Law at Mount Sinai, emphasizing continuity and the importance of tradition.<p><b>and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.&#8221;</b><br>The prophets served as God's messengers, delivering His words and instructions to the people. This phrase underscores the role of the prophets as intermediaries between God and His people, tasked with reminding them of the covenant and calling them back to obedience. The prophets' messages often included both warnings of judgment and promises of restoration, pointing ultimately to the hope found in the coming Messiah.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who communicates His will and warnings through His prophets.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/p/prophets_and_seers.htm">Prophets and Seers</a></b><br>God's chosen messengers who convey His warnings and instructions to the people of Israel and Judah.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel_and_judah.htm">Israel and Judah</a></b><br>The divided kingdoms of God's chosen people, who are being warned to turn from their sinful ways.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/c/commandments_and_statutes.htm">Commandments and Statutes</a></b><br>The laws given by God to the Israelites, which they are called to obey.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/fathers.htm">Fathers</a></b><br>The ancestors of the Israelites, who received God's law and covenant.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_persistent_warnings.htm">God's Persistent Warnings</a></b><br>God, in His mercy, continually warns His people through prophets. We should be attentive to God's warnings in our lives today, whether through Scripture, spiritual leaders, or personal conviction.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>The call to "turn from your evil ways" is timeless. Repentance is a crucial step in restoring our relationship with God and aligning our lives with His will.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_to_god's_law.htm">Obedience to God's Law</a></b><br>Obedience to God's commandments is not just a historical requirement but a present-day expectation for believers. We should strive to live according to God's Word.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_prophets.htm">The Role of Prophets</a></b><br>Prophets played a vital role in guiding and correcting God's people. Today, we can look to Scripture and godly counsel for guidance and correction.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br>Ignoring God's warnings leads to consequences. We should learn from Israel and Judah's mistakes and seek to live in obedience to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_17.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 17</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_the_massacre_of_the_innocents.htm">What is the Divine Right of Kings?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_is_the_author_of_2_kings.htm">Who is the author of 2 Kings?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_do_records_blame_babylon,_not_judgment.htm">If divine judgment was the reason for Judah&#8217;s downfall (2 Kings 21:12&#8211;15), why do secular records primarily attribute it to Babylonian expansion? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_were_the_cherethites_in_the_bible.htm">What are the visions and prophecies of Gad?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(13) <span class= "bld">Yet the Lord testified against Israel.</span>--Rather, <span class= "ital">And Jehovah adjured Israel</span> . . . The verb means here, <span class= "ital">gave solemn warning,</span> or <span class= "ital">charge.</span> In <a href="/2_kings/17-15.htm" title="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.">2Kings 17:15</a> it is repeated, with a cognate noun as object: "His testimonies which he testified against them;" or, <span class= "ital">his charges </span>(<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> precepts) <span class= "ital">which he had given them.</span><p><span class= "bld">By all the prophets, and by all the seers.</span>--The Hebrew text is, <span class= "ital">by the hand of all his prophets</span>--<span class= "ital">namely, every seer.</span> One or two MSS. and the Targum have <span class= "ital">prophet,</span> instead of <span class= "ital">his prophets.</span> The Syriac has "by the hand of all his servants the prophets, and all the seers." The Vulg. and Arabic also have both nouns plural. Seers were such persons as, without belonging to the prophetic order, came forward in times of emergency upon a sudden Divine impulse. Thenius thinks Israel and Judah are mentioned together because the reference is to the time before the partition of the kingdom; more probably, because both apostatised, and prophets were sent to both.<p><span class= "bld">And which I sent</span>--<span class= "ital">i.e., the law</span> which I sent. But--as according to later Jewish ideas, the prophets did not bring the Law, but only interpreted it--it seems better to understand with the Vulg. ("et sicut misi") "<span class= "ital">and according to all</span> that I sent to you (<span class= "ital">i.e.,</span> enjoined upon you) by my servants the prophets."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Yet the Lord testified</span> - rather, <span class="accented">and the Lord testified - <span class="cmt_word"></span>against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers</span>. A "seer" is, properly, one who <span class="accented">sees</span> visions; a "prophet," one inspired to pour forth utterances. But the words were used as synonyms (see <a href="/1_samuel/9-9.htm">1 Samuel 9:9</a>). Ever since the revolt of Jeroboam, there had been a succession of prophets in both countries whose office it had been to rebuke sin and to enforce the precepts of the Law. In Judah there had been Shemaiah, contemporary with Rehoboam (<a href="/2_chronicles/11-2.htm">2 Chronicles 11:2</a>; <a href="/2_chronicles/12-5.htm">2 Chronicles 12:5</a>); Iddo, contemporary with Abijah (<a href="/2_chronicles/13-22.htm">2 Chronicles 13:22</a>); Azariah, with Asa (<a href="/2_chronicles/15-1.htm">2 Chronicles 15:1</a>); Hanani, with the same (<a href="/2_chronicles/16-7.htm">2 Chronicles 16:7</a>); Jehu, the son of Hanani, with Jehoshaphat (<a href="/2_chronicles/19-2.htm">2 Chronicles 19:2</a>); Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, with the same (<a href="/2_chronicles/20-14.htm">2 Chronicles 20:14</a>); Eliezer, the son of Dodavah, also contemporary with the same (<a href="/2_chronicles/20-37.htm">2 Chronicles 20:37</a>); Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, contemporary with Joash (<a href="/2_chronicles/24-20.htm">2 Chronicles 24:20</a>); another Zechariah, contemporary with Uzziah (<a href="/2_chronicles/26-5.htm">2 Chronicles 26:5</a>); Joel, Micah, and Isaiah, besides several whose names are unknown. In Israel, the succession had included Ahijah the Shilonite, contemporary with Jeroboam (<a href="/1_kings/14-2.htm">1 Kings 14:2</a>); Jehu, the son of Hanani, with Baasha (<a href="/1_kings/16-1.htm">1 Kings 16:1</a>); Elijah, and Micaiah the son of Imlah, with Ahab (<a href="/1_kings/22-8.htm">1 Kings 22:8</a>) and Ahaziah (<a href="/2_kings/1-3.htm">2 Kings 1:3</a>); Elisha, with Jehoram, John, Jehoahaz, and Joash (<a href="/2_kings/3-11.htm">2 Kings 3:11-13:14</a>); Jonah, with Jeroboam II. (<a href="/2_kings/14-25.htm">2 Kings 14:25</a>); Hosea and Amos, with the same (<a href="/hosea/1-1.htm">Hosea 1:1</a>; <a href="/amos/1-1.htm">Amos 1:1</a>): and Oded (<a href="/2_chronicles/28-9.htm">2 Chronicles 28:9</a>), contemporary with Pekah. God had never left himself without living witness. Besides the written testimony of the Law, he had sent them a continuous series of prophets, who "repeated and enforced the teaching of the Law by word of month, breathing into the old words a new life, applying them to the facts of their own times, urging them on the con- sciences of their hearers, and authoritatively declaring to them that the terrible threatenings of the Law were directed against the very sins which they habitually practiced." The prophets continually addressed them in the Name of God, saying, <span class="cmt_word">Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.</span> This was the general burden of the prophetical teaching, both in Israel and in Judah, both before the captivity of Israel and afterwards (see <a href="/hosea/12-6.htm">Hosea 12:6</a>; <a href="/hosea/14-2.htm">Hosea 14:2</a>; <a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12, 13</a>; <a href="/amos/5-4.htm">Amos 5:4-15</a>; <a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16-20</a>; <a href="/isaiah/31-6.htm">Isaiah 31:6</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/3-7.htm">Jeremiah 3:7, 14</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/14-6.htm">Ezekiel 14:6</a>; <a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30</a>, etc.). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/2_kings/17-13.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Yet through</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1497;&#1463;&#1491;&#1449;</span> <span class="translit">(b&#601;&#183;ya&#7695;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b &#124; Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1499;&#1468;&#1464;&#1500;&#1470;</span> <span class="translit">(k&#257;l-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">His prophets</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1504;&#1456;&#1489;&#1460;&#1497;&#1488;&#1461;&#1448;&#1497;</span> <span class="translit">(n&#601;&#183;&#7687;&#238;&#183;&#8217;&#234;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5030.htm">Strong's 5030: </a> </span><span class="str2">A spokesman, speaker, prophet</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[and]</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1499;&#1464;&#1500;&#1470;</span> <span class="translit">(&#7733;&#257;l)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seers,</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1495;&#1465;&#1494;&#1462;&#1436;&#1492;</span> <span class="translit">(&#7717;&#333;&#183;zeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2374.htm">Strong's 2374: </a> </span><span class="str2">A beholder in vision, a compact</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1497;&#1456;&#1492;&#1493;&#1464;&#1441;&#1492;</span> <span class="translit">(Yah&#183;weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">warned</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1493;&#1463;&#1497;&#1468;&#1464;&#1443;&#1506;&#1463;&#1491;</span> <span class="translit">(way&#183;y&#257;&#183;&#8216;a&#7695;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw &#124; Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5749.htm">Strong's 5749: </a> </span><span class="str2">To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Israel</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1497;&#1460;&#1513;&#1474;&#1456;&#1512;&#1464;&#1488;&#1461;&#1443;&#1500;</span> <span class="translit">(b&#601;&#183;yi&#347;&#183;r&#257;&#183;&#8217;&#234;l)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b &#124; Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and Judah,</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1493;&#1468;&#1489;&#1460;&#1497;&#1492;&#1493;&#1468;&#1491;&#1464;&#1441;&#1492;</span> <span class="translit">(&#363;&#183;&#7687;&#238;&#183;h&#363;&#183;&#7695;&#257;h)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b &#124; Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3063.htm">Strong's 3063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Judah -- 'praised', a son of Jacob, also the southern kingdom, also four Israelites</span><br /><br /><span class="word">saying,</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1500;&#1461;&#1488;&#1502;&#1465;&#1431;&#1512;</span> <span class="translit">(l&#234;&#183;m&#333;r)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l &#124; Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To utter, say</span><br /><br /><span class="word">&#8220;Turn</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1513;&#1473;&#1467;&#1437;&#1440;&#1489;&#1493;&#1468;</span> <span class="translit">(&#7687;&#363;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from your wicked</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1492;&#1464;&#1469;&#1512;&#1464;&#1506;&#1460;&#1497;&#1501;&#1433;</span> <span class="translit">(h&#257;&#183;r&#257;&#183;&#8216;&#238;m)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article &#124; Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7451.htm">Strong's 7451: </a> </span><span class="str2">Bad, evil</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ways</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1502;&#1460;&#1491;&#1468;&#1463;&#1512;&#1456;&#1499;&#1461;&#1497;&#1499;&#1462;&#1444;&#1501;</span> <span class="translit">(mid&#183;dar&#183;&#7733;&#234;&#183;&#7733;em)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m &#124; Noun - common plural construct &#124; second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1870.htm">Strong's 1870: </a> </span><span class="str2">A road, a course of life, mode of action</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and keep</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1493;&#1456;&#1513;&#1473;&#1460;&#1502;&#1456;&#1512;&#1493;&#1468;&#1433;</span> <span class="translit">(w&#601;&#183;&#353;im&#183;r&#363;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw &#124; Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8104.htm">Strong's 8104: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My commandments</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1502;&#1460;&#1510;&#1456;&#1493;&#1466;&#1514;&#1463;&#1443;&#1497;</span> <span class="translit">(mi&#7779;&#183;w&#333;&#183;&#7791;ay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct &#124; first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4687.htm">Strong's 4687: </a> </span><span class="str2">Commandment</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and statutes,</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1495;&#1467;&#1511;&#1468;&#1493;&#1465;&#1514;&#1463;&#1428;&#1497;</span> <span class="translit">(&#7717;uq&#183;q&#333;&#183;w&#183;&#7791;ay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct &#124; first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2708.htm">Strong's 2708: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something prescribed, an enactment, statute</span><br /><br /><span class="word">according to the entire</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1499;&#1468;&#1456;&#1499;&#1464;&#1448;&#1500;&#1470;</span> <span class="translit">(k&#601;&#183;&#7733;&#257;l-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k &#124; Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Law</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1492;&#1463;&#1514;&#1468;&#1493;&#1465;&#1512;&#1464;&#1428;&#1492;</span> <span class="translit">(hat&#183;t&#333;&#183;w&#183;r&#257;h)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article &#124; Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8451.htm">Strong's 8451: </a> </span><span class="str2">Direction, instruction, law</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1488;&#1458;&#1513;&#1473;&#1462;&#1445;&#1512;</span> <span class="translit">(&#8217;a&#774;&#183;&#353;er)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I commanded</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1510;&#1460;&#1493;&#1468;&#1460;&#1430;&#1497;&#1514;&#1460;&#1497;</span> <span class="translit">(&#7779;iw&#183;w&#238;&#183;&#7791;&#238;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6680.htm">Strong's 6680: </a> </span><span class="str2">To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your forefathers</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1488;&#1458;&#1489;&#1465;&#1469;&#1514;&#1461;&#1497;&#1499;&#1462;&#1425;&#1501;</span> <span class="translit">(&#8217;a&#774;&#183;&#7687;&#333;&#183;&#7791;&#234;&#183;&#7733;em)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct &#124; second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1.htm">Strong's 1: </a> </span><span class="str2">Father</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and delivered</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1513;&#1473;&#1464;&#1500;&#1463;&#1443;&#1495;&#1456;&#1514;&#1468;&#1460;&#1497;</span> <span class="translit">(&#353;&#257;&#183;la&#7717;&#183;t&#238;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> </span><span class="str2">To send away, for, out</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to you</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1488;&#1458;&#1500;&#1461;&#1497;&#1499;&#1462;&#1428;&#1501;</span> <span class="translit">(&#8217;a&#774;&#183;l&#234;&#183;&#7733;em)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition &#124; second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">through</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1489;&#1468;&#1456;&#1497;&#1463;&#1430;&#1491;</span> <span class="translit">(b&#601;&#183;ya&#7695;)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b &#124; Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My servants</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1506;&#1458;&#1489;&#1464;&#1491;&#1463;&#1445;&#1497;</span> <span class="translit">(&#8216;a&#774;&#183;&#7687;&#257;&#183;&#7695;ay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct &#124; first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5650.htm">Strong's 5650: </a> </span><span class="str2">Slave, servant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the prophets.?</span><br /><span class="heb">&#1492;&#1463;&#1504;&#1468;&#1456;&#1489;&#1460;&#1497;&#1488;&#1460;&#1469;&#1497;&#1501;&#1475;</span> <span class="translit">(han&#183;n&#601;&#183;&#7687;&#238;&#183;&#8217;&#238;m)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article &#124; Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5030.htm">Strong's 5030: </a> </span><span class="str2">A spokesman, speaker, prophet</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 17:13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/17-12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 17:12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 17:12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/17-14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 17:14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 17:14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>

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