2 Kings 17:18-20

18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but athe tribe of Judah only.

19 bJudah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them cand gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Jeremiah 2:4

4Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 3:3-10

3 dTherefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have ethe forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
4Have you not just now fcalled to me,
‘My father, you are the friend of my youth
5 gwill he be angry forever,
will he be indignant to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken,
but you have done all the evil that you could.”

Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

6The Lord said to me in the days of hKing Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, ihow she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there jplayed the whore? 7And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous ksister Judah saw it. 8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, lI had sent her away with ma decree of divorce. nYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went oand played the whore. 9Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with pstone and tree. 10Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me qwith her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

Jeremiah 23:13-14

13In the prophets of rSamaria
sI saw an unsavory thing:
tthey prophesied by Baal
uand led my people Israel astray.
14But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
vthey commit adultery and walk in lies;
wthey strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
xall of them have become like Sodom to me,
yand its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Jeremiah 32:30-35

30For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight zfrom their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but aaprovoke me to anger abby the work of their hands, declares the Lord. 31This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, acso that I will remove it from my sight 32because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to angeradtheir kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 aeThey have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them afpersistently, they have not listened agto receive instruction. 34They set up ahtheir abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. 35They built the high places of Baal aiin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, ajto offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, akthough I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do althis abomination, amto cause Judah to sin.

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