14But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.


In Context

11 and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

12 and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.

13 And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.

14 But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

16 And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of the heavens, and served Baal;

2 Kings 17:14 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:14But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who did not trust in the Lord their God.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:14And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord their God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:14Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:14Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:14Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:14and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.