Leviticus 26:15
15if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but abreak my covenant,2 Kings 17:7-17
Exile Because of Idolatry
7And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, bwho 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 cand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, dand 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, efrom watchtower to fortified city. 10They set up for themselves fpillars 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, gof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13Yet the Lord hwarned Israel and Judah iby every prophet jand every seer, saying, k“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, lbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15They despised his statutes mand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after nfalse idols oand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the pLord 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 qtwo calves; and they rmade an Asherah and sworshiped all the host of heaven and served tBaal. 17 uAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ▼
▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
and used wdivination and xomens and ysold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 2 Chronicles 36:14-16
14All 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.15The Lord, the God of their fathers, zsent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 aaBut they kept mocking the messengers of God, abdespising his words and scoffing at his prophets, acuntil the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
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