2Ki 17:7-17, Pro 6:32, 8:36, Isa 3:9, 11, Jer 2:17, 19, 4:18, 5:25, Hos 14:1 | ESV | STEP | And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God , who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt , and had feared other gods

2 Kings 17:7-17

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And 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. 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, ^dfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^epillars 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, ^fof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet 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.”

14 But they would not listen, ^kbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They 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. 16 And 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.

Proverbs 6:32

32 He who commits adultery lacks sense;
he who does it destroys himself.

Proverbs 8:36

36 but he who fails to find me ^yinjures himself;
all who ^zhate me ^aalove death.”

Isaiah 3:9

9 For the look on their faces bears witness against them;
they proclaim their sin ^ablike Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
^acFor they have brought evil on themselves.

Isaiah 3:11

11 ^adWoe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him,
for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.

Jeremiah 2:17

17 ^aeHave you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when ^afhe led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

19 ^agYour evil will chastise you,
and ^ahyour apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^aibitter
for ^ajyou to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,

declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 4:18

18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and ^akit is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”

Jeremiah 5:25

25 ^alYour iniquities have turned these away,
and your sins have kept good from you.

Hosea 14:1

A Plea to Return to the Lord

1 ^amReturn, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for ^anyou have stumbled because of your iniquity.