¹³The Lord had warned Israel and Judah through every kind of prophet and seer,^a“Turn from your evil ways, and obey my commands and decrees as I commanded your ancestors in all my teachings, the commands I sent to you through my servants the prophets.” ¹⁴But they refused to listen. They became as impossible to deal with as their ancestors who refused to trust the Lord their God. ¹⁵They rejected his decrees, the promise^bhe made to their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They went after worthless idols and became as worthless as the idols. They behaved like the nations around them, although the Lord had commanded them not to do that. ¹⁶They abandoned all the commands of the Lord their God:

They made two calves out of cast metal.

They made a pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

They prayed to the entire army of heaven.

They worshiped Baal.

¹⁷They sacrificed their sons and daughters by burning them alive.

They practiced black magic and cast evil spells.

They sold themselves by doing what the Lord considered evil, and they made him furious.

¹⁸The Lord became so angry with Israel that he removed them from his sight. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

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2 Kings 17:18: Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.

Footnotes

a 17:13 A seer is a prophet.
b 17:15 Or “covenant.”