2 Kings 17:15 (WEB)
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
Fathers and councils · 2
“For thus, in the later times in which kings were governing them, did they again, in conjunction with Jeroboam, worship golden kine, and groves, and enslave themselves to Baal.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Kings xii. 25–33; 2 Kings xvii. 7–17 (in LXX. 3 and 4 Kings). The Eng. ver. speaks of “calves;” the LXX. call them “heifers.”
Read the whole comment“For in the first part of the law, too, “Thou shalt not,” saith He, “use the name of the Lord thy God in a vain thing,” that is, in an idol.” — editor's note: Because Scripture calls idols “vanities” and “vain things.” See 2 Kings xvii. 15, Ps. xxiv. 4, Isa. lix. 4, Deut. xxxii. 21, etc.
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Cross-references · 10
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Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
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Matthew 12:16 takes up the words of 2 Kings 17:15 (6 words in common).
Romans 11:8 takes up the words of 2 Kings 17:15 (8 words in common).