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2KI-17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea
the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
+2KI-17:2 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the
LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
2KI-17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and
Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
2KI-17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for
he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no
present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year:
therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
prison.
2KI-17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the
land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2KI-17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took
Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them
in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities
of the Medes.
2KI-17:7 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned
against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and
had feared other gods,
2KI-17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the
LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the
kings of Israel, which they had made.
2KI-17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things
that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built
them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fenced city.
2KI-17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high
hill, and under every green tree:
2KI-17:11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places,
as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and
wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
2KI-17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto
them, Ye shall not do this thing.
KI-17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against
Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers, saying, Turn
ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my
statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your
fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2KI-17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened
their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not
believe in the LORD their God.
2KI-17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that
he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he
testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became
vain, and went after the heathen that [were] round about them,
[concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should
not do like them.
2KI-17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their
God, and made them molten images, [even] two calves, and made a
grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2KI-17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him
to anger.
2KI-17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe
of Judah only.
2KI-17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their
God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2KI-17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and
afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers,
until he had cast them out of his sight.
2KI-17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they
made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel
from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
2KI-17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2KI-17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he
had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried
away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
2KI-17:24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon,
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from
Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead
of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt
in the cities thereof.
2KI-17:25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling
there, [that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent
lions among them, which slew [some] of them.
2KI-17:26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying,
The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore
he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them,
because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
2KI-17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry
thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let
them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of
the God of the land.
2KI-17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away
from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they
should fear the LORD.
2KI-17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put
[them] in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had
made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2KI-17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men
of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
2KI-17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the
Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and
Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
2KI-17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of
the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed
for them in the houses of the high places.
2KI-17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after
the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
2KI-17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they
fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or
after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which
the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
2KI-17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged
them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves
to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
2KI-17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of
Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye
fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
2KI-17:37 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.
2KI-17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall
not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
2KI-17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
2KI-17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their
former manner.
2KI-17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their
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