2 Kings 17:8-20

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.”[a]
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.
15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the LORD had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”
16 They forsook all the commands of the LORD their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.
17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, arousing his anger.
18 So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left,
19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the LORD their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.
20 Therefore the LORD rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence.

Cross References 26

  • 1. S Exodus 34:15; S Leviticus 18:3; S Deuteronomy 9:4; Deuteronomy 18:9; 2 Kings 16:3
  • 2. 2 Kings 18:8
  • 3. S Exodus 23:24
  • 4. Exodus 34:13; Isaiah 17:8; Micah 5:14
  • 5. S Deuteronomy 12:2; 1 Kings 14:23
  • 6. S Exodus 20:4
  • 7. S Judges 6:8; S 2 Chronicles 7:14; S Job 34:33; Ezekiel 3:17-19
  • 8. S 1 Samuel 9:9
  • 9. Jeremiah 4:1; Jeremiah 18:11; Jeremiah 23:22; Jeremiah 25:5; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 36:3; Zechariah 1:4
  • 10. Matthew 23:34
  • 11. S Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 31:27; Acts 7:51
  • 12. S Leviticus 26:11; Deuteronomy 29:25; Judges 2:20; 1 Kings 11:11; 2 Kings 18:12; Psalms 78:10; Ezekiel 5:6; Malachi 2:10
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 32:21; Hosea 11:2; Romans 1:21-23
  • 14. Jeremiah 2:5
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 12:4; Deuteronomy 12:30-31
  • 16. S Exodus 32:4; 1 Kings 12:28
  • 17. S Deuteronomy 16:21; 1 Kings 14:15,23
  • 18. S Genesis 2:1; Isaiah 40:26; Jeremiah 19:13; 2 Kings 21:3
  • 19. S Judges 2:11; 1 Kings 16:31
  • 20. S Deuteronomy 12:31; Deuteronomy 18:10-12; 2 Kings 16:3; Ezekiel 16:21
  • 21. S Leviticus 19:26
  • 22. S 1 Kings 21:20; Romans 7:14
  • 23. S Genesis 4:14; S Exodus 33:15; S 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:9
  • 24. 1 Kings 14:22-23; 2 Kings 16:3; Jeremiah 3:6-10; Ezekiel 23:13
  • 25. S ver 6; 2 Kings 15:29
  • 26. Jeremiah 7:15; Jeremiah 15:1

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