2 Kings 17:13–18

¹³Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”^{* 14}They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.^{* 15}They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.^{* 16}They rejected all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole,^q worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.^{* 17}They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire, used divination and augury, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.^{* 18}Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah alone.^*