2 Kings 17:13–18

¹³Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of his every prophet, with every seer saying, “Turn from all of your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the law which I commanded your ancestors,^e which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.” ¹⁴But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestors^f who did not believe in Yahweh their God. ¹⁵They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he made^g with their ancestors,^h and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and went after all the nations which were all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they did. ¹⁶They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal. ¹⁷They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. ¹⁸So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and he removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah alone.