2-kings 17:19
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
Webster's Revision
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
World English Bible
Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Barnes's 2-kings 17:19 Bible Commentary
This verse and the next are parenthetical. Here again, as in 2 Kings 17:13, the writer is led on from his account of the sins and punishment of the Israelites to glance at the similar sins and similar punishment of the Jews.
It was the worst reproach which could be urged against any Jewish king, that he "walked in the way of the kings of Israel" 2 Kings 8:18; 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 28:2. The Baal worship is generally the special sin at which the phrase is leveled; but the meaning here seems to be wider. Compare Micah 6:16.
Wesley's 2-kings 17:19 Bible Commentary
17:19 Judah kept not — Judah's idolatry and wickedness are here remembered, as an aggravation of the sin of the Israelites, which was not only evil in itself, but mischievous to their neighbour, who by their examples were instructed in their wicked arts, and provoked to an imitation of them.
