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2Ki 17:15 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

they rejected		Jer 8:9
his covenant		Exd 24:6-8; Deu 29:10-15,25,26; Jer 31:32
testimonies		Deu 6:17,18; 2Ch 36:15,16; Neh 9:26,29,30; Jer 44:4,23
vanity		Deu 32:21,31; 1Sa 12:21; 1Ki 16:13; Psa 115:8; Jer 10:8,15; Jhn 2:8
became vain		Jer 2:5; Rom 1:21-23; 1Cr 8:4
concerning whom		2Ki 17:8,11,12; Deu 12:30,31; 2Ch 33:2,9

Correlating Passages

they rejected

Jer 8:9

The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

his covenant

	Exd 24:6	And Moses took half of the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
	Exd 24:7	And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
	Exd 24:8	And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled [it] on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
	Deu 29:10	Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, [with] all the men of Israel,
	Deu 29:11	Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that [is] in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
	Deu 29:12	That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
	Deu 29:13	That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
	Deu 29:14	Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
	Deu 29:15	But with [him] that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with [him] that [is] not here with us this day:
	Deu 29:25	Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
	Deu 29:26	For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and [whom] he had not given unto them:
	Jer 31:32	Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day [that] I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:

testimonies

	Deu 6:17	Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
	Deu 6:18	And thou shalt do [that which is] right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
	2Ch 36:15	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:
	2Ch 36:16	But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.
	Neh 9:26	Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
	Neh 9:29	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.
	Neh 9:30	Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
	Jer 44:4	Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
	Jer 44:23	Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

vanity

	Deu 32:21	They have moved me to jealousy with [that which is] not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with [those which are] not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
	Deu 32:31	For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges.
	1Sa 12:21	And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.
	1Ki 16:13	For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
	Psa 115:8	They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
	Jer 10:8	But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
	Jer 10:15	They [are] vanity, [and] the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
	Jhn 2:8	And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare [it].

became vain

	Jer 2:5	Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
	Rom 1:21	Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
	Rom 1:22	Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
	Rom 1:23	And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
	1Cr 8:4	As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.

concerning whom

	2Ki 17:8	And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
	2Ki 17:11	And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
	2Ki 17:12	For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
	Deu 12:30	Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
	Deu 12:31	Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
	2Ch 33:2	But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
	2Ch 33:9	So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, [and] to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Kings 17:15," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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