2 Kings 17:4-14

4 But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So[a] king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.
5 The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.

Israel Exiled Because of Sin

7 All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods
8 and followed the practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.
9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns.
10 They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree.
11 At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the LORD’s anger.
12 They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, “You shall not do this.”[b]
13 The LORD warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: “Turn from your evil ways. Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.”
14 But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the LORD their God.

Cross References 20

  • 1. Psalms 146:3; Isaiah 30:1,7; Isaiah 36:6; Jeremiah 2:36; Hosea 12:1
  • 2. Hosea 13:10
  • 3. Hosea 13:16
  • 4. ver 20; S 2 Kings 15:29; Isaiah 42:24
  • 5. Isaiah 10:9; Hosea 13:16
  • 6. S Deuteronomy 4:27; S Deuteronomy 24:1; S 2 Kings 15:29; Amos 7:17; Deuteronomy 28:36,64; 2 Kings 18:10-11
  • 7. 1 Chronicles 5:26
  • 8. S Joshua 7:11; Joshua 23:16; Judges 6:10
  • 9. Exodus 14:15-31
  • 10. S Exodus 34:15; S Leviticus 18:3; S Deuteronomy 9:4; Deuteronomy 18:9; 2 Kings 16:3
  • 11. 2 Kings 18:8
  • 12. S Exodus 23:24
  • 13. Exodus 34:13; Isaiah 17:8; Micah 5:14
  • 14. S Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23
  • 15. S Exodus 20:4
  • 16. S Judges 6:8; S 2 Chronicles 7:14; S Job 34:33; Ezekiel 3:17-19
  • 17. S 1 Samuel 9:9
  • 18. Jeremiah 4:1; Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 23:22; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 36:3; Zechariah 1:4
  • 19. Matthew 23:34
  • 20. S Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 31:27; Acts 7:51

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. "So" is probably an abbreviation for "Osorkon."
  • [b]. Exodus 20:4,5
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