2nd Kings Chapter 17 verse 40 Holy Bible
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.
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And they did not hearken, but did after their former customs.
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Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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Yet they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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However they did not listen, but they did after their former manner.
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and they have not hearkened, but according to their former custom they are doing,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 40. - Howbeit they did not hearken. The mixed race, with their mixed religion, though professing to be worshippers of Jehovah, paid no attention to the warnings and threatenings of the Law (ver. 34), which were to them a dead letter. But they did after their former manner; i.e. they continued to maintain the syncretism described in vers. 28-33.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(40) They--i.e., the Ephraimites.Did.--Continued doing.After their former manner--i.e., they clung to the old-established cultus of the calves.