2 Kings 17:39-41

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

³⁹ But the Lord your God you shall [reverently] fear; then He will deliver you out of the hands of all your enemies.

⁴⁰ However, they did not listen, but they did as they had done formerly.

⁴¹ So these nations [vainly] feared the Lord and also served their graven images, as did their children and their children’s children. As their fathers did, so do they to this day.