2Ki 17:3-23, Hos 10:14 | ESV | STEP | Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria . And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute .

2 Kings 17:3-23

3 ^aAgainst him came up ^bShalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute. 4 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute 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. 5 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.

The Fall of Israel

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^ccaptured Samaria, ^dand he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^eand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^fGozan, and in the cities of ^gthe Medes.

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^hwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 ⁱand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^jand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^kfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^lpillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, ^mof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord ⁿwarned Israel and Judah ^oby every prophet ^pand every seer, saying, ^q“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, ^rbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes ^sand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^tfalse idols ^uand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^vLord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^wtwo calves; and they ^xmade an Asherah and ^yworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^zBaal. 17 ^aaAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ^{▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire} and used ^acdivination and ^adomens and ^aesold 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 ^afthe tribe of Judah only.

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

21 ^aiWhen he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^ajthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ^akand made them commit great sin. 22 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^alas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^amSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

Hosea 10:14

14 therefore ^anthe tumult of war shall arise among your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as ^aoShalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle;
^apmothers were dashed in pieces with their children.