2 Kings 17:9–23

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. ¹⁹Also ^mJudah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. ²⁰And the Lord ⁿrejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and ^odelivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. ²¹For ^phe rent Israel from the house of David; and ^qthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam ^rdrave Israel from following the Lord, and ^smade them sin a great sin. ²²For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; ²³Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^tas he had said by all his servants the prophets. ^uSo was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.