American Standard Version
"Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. "
— 2 Kings 17:40, American Standard Version
“Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.”
“However they did not listen, but they did what they did before.”
“But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.”
“But they did not hearken to them, but did according to their old custom.”
“But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.”
“Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.”
and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods:
and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods:
but Jehovah your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children’s children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.