2 Kings 17:6-18

1599 Geneva Bible

⁶ ¶ ^(A)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the ^[a]Medes.

⁷ For when the children of Israel ^[b]sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and feared other gods,

⁸ And walked according to the fashions of the Heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel, and after the manners of the kings of Israel, which they used,

⁹ And the children of Israel had done secretly things that were not upright before the Lord their God, and throughout all their cities had built high places, both from the tower ^[c]of the watch, to the defensed city,

¹⁰ And had made them images and groves upon every high hill, and under every green tree,

¹¹ And there burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen, whom the Lord had taken away before them, and wrought wicked things to anger the Lord,

¹² And served idols: whereof the Lord had said unto them, ^(B)Ye shall do no such thing,

¹³ Notwithstanding the Lord testified to Israel, and to Judah ^[d]by all the Prophets, and by all the Seers, saying, ^(C)Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, and my statutes, according to all the Law, which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the Prophets.

¹⁴ Nevertheless they would not obey, ^(D)but hardened their necks, like to the necks of their ^[e]fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

¹⁵ And they refused his statutes and his covenant, that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies (wherewith he witnessed unto them) and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the heathen that were round about them: concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

¹⁶ Finally they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, ^(E)even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the ^[f]host of heaven, and served Baal.

¹⁷ And they made their sons and their daughters ^[g]pass through the fire, and used witchcraft and enchantments, yea, ^[h]sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to anger him.

¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was exceedingly wroth with Israel, and put them out of his sight, and none was left but the tribe of Judah ^[i]only.