2 KINGS 17:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they imitated the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them, 'You shall not do as they do' — Israel's sin is comprehensively catalogued: rejection of statutes (חֻקֹּתָיו, *chukkotav*), rejection of covenant (בְּרִיתוֹ, *berito*), rejection of prophetic warnings, and active adoption of foreign idolatry. The phrase "they imitated the nations that were around them" (וַיֵּלְכוּ אַחֲרֵי הַגּוֹיִם, *way-yelkhu achare ha-goim*) indicates deliberate choice: Israel adopted the religious practices of surrounding peoples despite explicit divine prohibition. The theological irony deepens: the LORD warned "You shall not do as they do," yet Israel did precisely that.
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