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and there they burnt incense in all the high places like the Gentiles, whom the LORD had carried away before them, and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
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serving idols, of which the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this.
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Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets
and by all the seers, saying, 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 the hand of my slaves the prophets.
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Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who had never believed in the LORD their God.
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And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified against them, and they followed vanity and became vain and went after the Gentiles that
were round about them,
concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
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And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God and made themselves molten images,
even two calves, and made groves and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal;
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and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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Therefore, the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
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But not even Judah kept the commandments of the LORD their God; to the contrary, they walked in the statutes of Israel which
they themselves had made.
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And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of spoilers until he had cast them out of his presence.
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For he rent Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit a great sin.