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He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Yisra'el who were before him.
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Against him came up Shalman'eser king of Ashshur; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
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The king of Ashshur found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Mitzrayim, and offered no tribute to the king of Ashshur, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Ashshur shut him up, and bound him in prison.
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Then the king of Ashshur came up throughout all the land, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it three years.
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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Ashshur took Shomron, and carried Yisra'el away to Ashshur, and placed them in Halach, and on the Havor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Madai.
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It was so, because the children of Yisra'el had sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up out of the land of Mitzrayim from under the hand of Par`oh king of Mitzrayim, and had feared other gods,
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and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Yisra'el, and of the kings of Yisra'el, which they made.
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The children of Yisra'el did secretly things that were not right against the LORD their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
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and they set them up pillars and Asherim on every high hill, and under every green tree;
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and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom the LORD carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger;
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and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.