2 Kings 17:41
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for 2 Kings 17:41 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
2 Kings 17:41 is a verse from the book of 2 Kings in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
2 Kings 17:41 — KJV
“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:41 (KJV)
2 Kings 17:41 in Context — About the Book of 2 Kings
2 Kings races through the divided kingdom's final centuries — Elisha's double-portion miracles, kings good and evil, and finally exile to Assyria and Babylon. Yet miracles keep breaking in: floating axe heads, healed lepers, resurrection. God stays powerfully present even in national decline.
Cross-References for 2 Kings 17:41
“And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. present: Heb. found from...: Heb. from after”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:41: nations, lord, children
“Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:41: these, nations, lord
“That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:41: lord, children, fathers
“These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:41: these, lord, fathers
“Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; gall: or, a poisonous herb: Heb. rosh”
Shares key themes with 2 Kings 17:41: these, nations, lord
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