Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Parallel translations
- WEB Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
- BSB and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.
- NKJV Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
- NASB Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God either, but they followed the customs which Israel had introduced.
- NLT But even the people of Judah refused to obey the commands of the Lord their God, for they followed the evil practices that Israel had introduced.
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Quick answer
Even Judah failed to keep God's commandments and followed Israel's practices. The southern kingdom is warned by its sister's fall.
Overview
The narrator pauses to indict Judah as well, noting that it too walked in the corrupt ways of Israel. This sober aside warns that Judah is not immune and foreshadows its own later exile to Babylon. It guards readers against self-righteousness, reminding them that all have sinned and stand in need of God's mercy.
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Cross-references · 11
- 2 Kgs 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kgs 14:22–23And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
- 2 Chr 21:11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.
- 2 Chr 21:13But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself:
- Ezek 16:51–52Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
- Jer 3:8–11And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
- 2 Kgs 8:27And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
- Ezek 22:2–16Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.
- 2 Kgs 8:18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- Jer 2:28But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
- Ezek 23:4–13And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
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