7 For 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, 8 And 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. 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, mfrom the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. 10 nAnd they set them up †images and ogroves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 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 pto provoke the Lord to anger: 12 For they served qidols, rwhereof the Lord had said unto them, sYe shall not do this thing. 13 Yet 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. 14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but xhardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. 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 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. 16 And 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. 17 And 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. 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 lonly. 19 Also mJudah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And 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. 21 For 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. 22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 23 Until 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.

24 x*And the king of Assyria brought men from yBabylon, and from Cuthah, and from ||Ava, and from zHamath, and from aSepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.