Read 2 Kings 17

World English Bible · 41 verses

1. ¹ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ The king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria seized him, and bound him in prison.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Yet Yahweh testified to Israel and to Judah, by every prophet and every seer, 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 my servants the prophets.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ They abandoned all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from themThis verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, from Cuthah, from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria and lived in its cities.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear Yahweh. Therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria don’t know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them; and behold, they kill them, because they don’t know the law of the god of the land.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² So they feared Yahweh, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ They feared Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
35. ³⁵ with whom Yahweh had made a covenant and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
36. ³⁶ but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
37. ³⁷ The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
38. ³⁸ You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
39. ³⁹ But you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
40. ⁴⁰ However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
41. ⁴¹ So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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