John 4:22 References
a 2 Kings 17:28-41
2 Kings 17
28
So one of the priests whom they had carried away into exile from Samaria came and lived at Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.
29
But every nation still made gods of its own and put them ain the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
30
aThe men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,
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and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and athe Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to bAdrammelech and Anammelech the gods of cSepharvaim.
32
aThey also feared the Lord and bappointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses of the high places.
33
They feared the Lord and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.
34
To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the Lord, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, awhom He named Israel;
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with whom the Lord made a covenant and commanded them, saying, "aYou shall not fear other gods, nor bbow down yourselves to them nor cserve them nor sacrifice to them.
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"But the Lord, awho brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with ban outstretched arm, cHim you shall fear, and to Him you shall bow yourselves down, and to Him you shall sacrifice.
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"The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment which He wrote for you, ayou shall observe to do forever; and you shall not fear other gods.
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"But the Lord your God you shall fear; and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies."
40
However, they did not listen, but they did according to their earlier custom.