2Ki 17:6-20, Isa 3:2-3, 19:15, Hos 1:4, 6, 9, 4:5, 5:12-14, 8:8, 9:11-17 | ESV | STEP | In the ninth year of Hoshea , the king of Assyria captured Samaria , and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah , and on the Habor , the river of Gozan , and in the cities of the Medes .

bm[See ver. 12 above]

bo[Luke 23:29]

bp ch. 4:15; 12:11

bq ch. 8:4

br[ch. 5:2]

bs[ver. 11]

bt[ver. 12, 13]

bu[See ver. 12 above]

bv[ch. 8:5]

bw Deut. 28:64, 65

2 Kings 17:6-20

The Fall of Israel

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria ^acaptured Samaria, ^band he carried the Israelites away to Assyria ^cand placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of ^dGozan, and in the cities of ^ethe Medes.

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^fwho 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 ^gand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^hand 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, ⁱfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^jpillars 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, ^kof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord ^lwarned Israel and Judah ^mby every prophet ⁿand every seer, saying, ^o“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, ^pbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes ^qand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^rfalse idols ^sand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^tLord 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 ^utwo calves; and they ^vmade an Asherah and ^wworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^xBaal. 17 ^yAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ^{▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire} and used ^aadivination and ^abomens and ^acsold 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 ^adthe tribe of Judah only.

19 ^aeJudah 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 ^afand gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

Isaiah 3:2-3

2 ^agthe mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.

Isaiah 19:15

15 And there will be nothing for Egypt
that ^ahhead or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.

Hosea 1:4

4 And the Lord said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while ^aiI will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and ^ajI will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

Hosea 1:6

6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the Lord said to him, ^ak“Call her name No Mercy, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ruhama, which means she has not received mercy} for ^amI will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.

Hosea 1:9

9 And the Lord said, ^an“Call his name Not My People, ^{▼▼Hebrew Lo-ammi, which means not my people} for ^apyou are not my people, and I am not your God.” ^{▼▼Hebrew I am not yours}

Hosea 4:5

5 You shall stumble by day;
the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
and I will destroy ^aryour mother.

Hosea 5:12-14

12 But I am ^aslike a moth to Ephraim,
and ^atlike dry rot to the house of Judah.
13 When Ephraim saw his sickness,
and Judah ^auhis wound,
then Ephraim went ^avto Assyria,
and sent to the great king. ^{▼▼Or to King Jareb}
^axBut he is not able to cure you
or heal ^ayyour wound.
14 For I will be ^azlike a lion to ^baEphraim,
and like a young lion to the house of ^bbJudah.
^bcI, even I, will tear and go away;
I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.

Hosea 8:8

8 ^bdIsrael is swallowed up;
already they are among the nations
as ^bea useless vessel.

Hosea 9:11-17

11 Ephraim’s ^bfglory shall fly away like a bird—
^bgno birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 ^bhEven if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
^biWoe to them
when ^bjI depart from them!
13 Ephraim, ^bkas I have seen, was like a young palm ^{▼▼Or like Tyre} planted in a meadow;
but ^bmEphraim must lead his children out to slaughter. ^{▼▼Hebrew to him who slaughters}
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them ^boa miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15 Every evil of theirs is in ^bpGilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all ^bqtheir princes are ^brrebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken;
^bstheir root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even ^btthough they give birth,
^buI will put their beloved children to death.
17 ^bvMy God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
^bwthey shall be wanderers among the nations.