2 Kings 17:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ The Israelites did^[a] things that the Lord their God disapproved of. They built pagan places of worship in all their towns, from the smallest village to the largest city. ^10 (A)On all the hills and under every shady tree they put up stone pillars and images of the goddess Asherah, ¹¹ and they burned incense on all the pagan altars, following the practice of the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land. They aroused the Lord's anger with all their wicked deeds