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2 Kings 17:41

17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

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So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children’s children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they to this day.

What does 2 Kings 17:41 mean?

2 Kings 17:41 is a verse in the book of 2 Kings, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include גּוֹי (gôwy), יָרֵא (yârêʼ), יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh). It connects to 5 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

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So
these
nationsגּוֹיgôwy/go'-ee/H1471a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
fearedיָרֵאyârêʼ/yaw-ray'/H3373fearing; morally, reverent
the
LORD,יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâh/yeh-ho-vaw'/H3068Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
and
servedעָבַדʻâbad/aw-bad'/H5647to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
their
graven
images,פְּסִילpᵉçîyl/pes-eel'/H6456an idol
both
their
children,בֵּןbên/bane/H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
and
their
children'sבֵּןbên/bane/H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
children:בֵּןbên/bane/H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
as
didעָשָׂהʻâsâh/aw-saw'/H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
their
fathers,אָבʼâb/awb/H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
so
doעָשָׂהʻâsâh/aw-saw'/H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
they
unto
this
day.יוֹםyôwm/yome/H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)

Commentary on 2 Kings 17:41

HENRY_FULL · 2 Kings 17:41
3" This chapter gives us the history of the reign of Joash, which does not answer to that glorious beginning of it which we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; he was not so illustrious at forty years old as he was at seven, yet his reign is to be reckoned one of the better sort, and appears much worse in Chronicles ( 2 Chron. xxiv. ) than it does here, for there we find the blood of one of God's prophets laid at his door; here we are only told, I. That he did well while Jehoiada lived, ver. 1-3 . II. That he was careful and active to repair the temple, ver. 4-16 . III. That after a mean compact with Hazael ( ver. 17, 18 ) he died ingloriously, ver. 19-21 . The Reign of Joash, King of Judah. (<

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

2 Kings 14:3

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

2 Chronicles 24:2

And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24:17

Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.

2 Chronicles 25:2

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

2 Chronicles 26:4

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with 2 Kings 17:41.

2 Chronicles 20:6

And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

2 Chronicles 7:22

And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

2 Kings 17:33

They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. whom: or, who carried them away from thence

Psalms 147:11

The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

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What does 2 Kings 17:41 say?

2 Kings 17:41 (King James Version) reads: "So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day."

Is 2 Kings 17:41 in the Old or New Testament?

2 Kings 17:41 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of 2 Kings.

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