17:39 Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”
17:40 But they 1 pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.
17:41 These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.
1 sn This refers to the foreigners whom the king of Assyria settled in the land (see v. 35a).