2Kings:17:7-23

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* And so it was , because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God , who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt , and had feared other gods ; * and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel , and of the kings of Israel , which they had made . * And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right ; and they built them high places in all their cities , from the watchmen 's tower to the fortified city . * And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree ; * 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 ; * and they served idols , as to which Jehovah had said to them , Ye shall not do this thing . * 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 . * But they would not hear , and hardened their necks , like to the neck of their fathers , who did not believe in Jehovah their God . * 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 . * 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 ; * 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 Jehovah , to provoke him to anger . * Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel , and removed them out of his sight : there remained but the tribe of Judah only . * Also Judah kept not the commandments of Jehovah their God , but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made . * And Jehovah 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 . * For Israel had rent [the kingdom ] from the house of David ; and they had made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king ; and Jeroboam violently turned Israel from following Jehovah , and made them sin a great sin . * And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did ; they did not depart from them : * until Jehovah had removed Israel out of his sight , as he had said through all his servants the prophets ; and Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria , unto this day .

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