2 Kings 17:7-17
Exile Because of Idolatry
7And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, awho 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 band walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, cand 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, dfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10They set up for themselves epillars 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, fof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13Yet the Lord gwarned Israel and Judah hby every prophet iand every seer, saying, j“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, kbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15They despised his statutes land his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after mfalse idols nand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the oLord 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 ptwo calves; and they qmade an Asherah and rworshiped all the host of heaven and served sBaal. 17 tAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼
▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
and used vdivination and womens and xsold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. Jeremiah 2:19
19 yYour evil will chastise you,and zyour apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and aabitter
for abyou to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Jeremiah 3:8
8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, acI had sent her away with ada decree of divorce. aeYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went afand played the whore.Jeremiah 3:11-14
11And the Lord said to me, ag“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12Go, and proclaim these words toward ahthe north, and say,ai“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for ajI am merciful,
declares the Lord;
akI will not be angry forever.
13 alOnly acknowledge your guilt,
that you rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among foreigners under amevery green tree,
and that you have not obeyed my voice,
declares the Lord.
14 anReturn, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
aofor I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah 7:24
24 apBut they did not obey or incline their ear, aqbut walked in their own counsels and arthe stubbornness of their evil hearts, and aswent backward and not forward.Ezekiel 23:11
11 at“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became aumore corrupt than her sister ▼▼Hebrew than she
in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.
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