2 Kings 17:7–18

⁷For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ⁱwhich had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, ⁸And walked in the statutes ^kof the heathen, ^lwhom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and ^lof the kings of Israel, which they had made. ⁹And 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, ^mfrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. ¹⁰ⁿAnd they set them up ^†images and ^ogroves in every high hill, and under every green tree: ¹¹And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things ^pto provoke the Lord to anger: ¹²For they served ^qidols, ^rwhereof the Lord had said unto them, ^sYe shall not do this thing. ¹³Yet the Lord ^ttestified against Israel, and against Judah, ^†by all the prophets, and by all ^uthe seers, saying, ^wTurn 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. ¹⁴Notwithstanding they would not hear, but ^xhardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed ^yvanity, and ^zbecame vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord ^ahad charged them, that they should not do like them. ¹⁶And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even ^btwo calves, and made ^ca grove, and worshipped ^dall the host of heaven, and served ^eBaal. ¹⁷And ^fthey caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and ^gused divination and ^henchantments, and ⁱsold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, ^kto provoke him to anger. ¹⁸Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah ^lonly.