Jos 7:11-12, Judg 6:1-2, 2Ki 17:7-18, 18:11-12, 2Ch 36:14-17 | ESV | STEP | Israel has sinned ; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things ; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings .

Joshua 7:11-12

11 Israel has sinned; they have ^atransgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the ^bdevoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. 12 ^cTherefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They ^dturn their backs before their enemies, because they have become ^edevoted for destruction. ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} I will be with you no more, unless you destroy ^gthe devoted things from among you.

Judges 6:1-2

Midian Oppresses Israel

1 ^hThe people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of ⁱMidian seven years. 2 And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and ^jthe caves and the strongholds.

2 Kings 17:7-18

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^kwho 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 ^land walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^mand 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, ⁿfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^opillars 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, ^pof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord ^qwarned Israel and Judah ^rby every prophet ^sand every seer, saying, ^t“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, ^ubut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes ^vand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^wfalse idols ^xand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^yLord 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 ^ztwo calves; and they ^aamade an Asherah and ^abworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^acBaal. 17 ^adAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ^{▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire} and used ^afdivination and ^agomens and ^ahsold 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 ^aithe tribe of Judah only.

2 Kings 18:11-12

11 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in ^ajHalah, and on the ^akHabor, ^althe river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because 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 Chronicles 36:14-17

14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.

15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, ^amsent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 ^anBut they kept mocking the messengers of God, ^aodespising his words and scoffing at his prophets, ^apuntil the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Jerusalem Captured and Burned

17 ^aqTherefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.