2 Kings 17:6-23
The Fall of Israel
6In 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
7And 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. 9And 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. 10They set up for themselves jpillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11and 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, 12and they served idols, kof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13Yet 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.”14But they would not listen, pbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15They 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. 16And 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. 18Therefore 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. 20And 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.
21 agWhen he had torn Israel from the house of David, ahthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord aiand made them commit great sin. 22The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ajas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. akSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.
2 Kings 18:9-12
9In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, alShalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it, 10and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in amHalah, and on the anHabor, aothe river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12because they did not obey the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.2 Kings 24:11
11And apNebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,Proverbs 12:10
10 aqWhoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
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