2 Kings 17:13-18
13Yet the aLord warned Israel and Judah ▼▼Lit by the hand of
cthrough all His prophets and devery seer, saying, “ eTurn back from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes in accordance with all the Law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you ▼▼Lit by the hand of
through My servants the prophets.” 14However, they did not listen, but gstiffened their neck ▼▼Lit like the neck of
like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 iThey rejected His statutes and jHis covenant which He made with their fathers, and His warnings which He ▼▼Lit warned
gave them. And lthey followed ▼▼Lit the non-existent
idols and nbecame empty, and followed the nations that surrounded them, about which the oLord had commanded them not to do as they did. 16And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves cast metal images: ptwo calves. And they qmade an ▼▼I.e., a wooden symbol of a female deity
Asherah, and sworshiped all the heavenly ▼▼Lit host
lights, and userved Baal. 17Then vthey made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and they wpracticed divination and interpreting omens, and xgave themselves over to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him. 18So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and He yremoved them from His ▼▼Lit face
sight; aano one was left except the tribe of Judah.
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