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II KINGS ยท Chapter 17
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son
of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not
as the kings of Israel that were before him.
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became
his servant, and gave him presents.
17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had
sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king
of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria
shut him up, and bound him in prison.
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and
went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor
by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against
the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt,
from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
17:8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which
they had made.
17:9 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, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and
under every green tree:
17:11 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
to provoke the LORD to anger:
17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, All
of you shall not do this thing.
17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by
all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn all of you 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.
17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks,
like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their
God.
17:15 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 vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that
were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that
they should not do like them.
17:16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and
made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped
all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to
do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
17:18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them
out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but
walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
17:20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them,
and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out
of his sight.
17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam
the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD,
and made them sin a great sin.
17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam
which he did; they departed not from them;
17:23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said
by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their
own land to Assyria unto this day.
17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah,
and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in
the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
17:25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that
they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which
slew some of them.
17:26 Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations
which you have removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the
manner of the God of the land: therefore he has sent lions among them,
and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God
of the land.
17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one
of the priests whom all of you brought from thence; and let them go and
dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
17:28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria
came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
17:29 Nevertheless every nation made gods of their own, and put them
in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation
in their cities wherein they dwelt.
17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth
made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt
their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
17:32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the low
of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses
of the high places.
17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner
of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
17:34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not
the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances,
or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children
of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
17:35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying,
All of you shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve
them, nor sacrifice to them:
17:36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with
great power and a stretched out arm, him shall all of you fear, and him
shall all of you worship, and to him shall all of you do sacrifice.
17:37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment,
which he wrote for you, all of you shall observe to do for evermore; and
all of you shall not fear other gods.
17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you all of you shall not
forget; neither shall all of you fear other gods.
17:39 But the LORD your God all of you shall fear; and he shall deliver
you out of the hand of all your enemies.
17:40 Nevertheless they did not hearken, but they did after their former
manner.
17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images,
both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers,
so do they unto this day.
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