NITHYAM SONGS2 Kings 17
World English Bible (WEB) • 41 verses
1In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel for nine years.
Related2 Kings 15:30
2He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.
Related2 Kings 15:24 · 2 Chronicles 30:5-11 · 2 Kings 13:11 · 2 Kings 3:2 · 2 Kings 10:31 · 2 Kings 15:18
3Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
4The 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.
RelatedIsaiah 31:1-3 · 2 Kings 18:14-15 · Psalms 149:7-8 · Ezekiel 17:13-19 · 2 Kings 25:7 · 2 Kings 24:20
5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6In 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.
RelatedHosea 13:16 · 1 Chronicles 5:26 · Deuteronomy 28:64 · 2 Kings 18:10-11 · Deuteronomy 29:27-28 · Amos 5:27
7It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD 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,
RelatedJoshua 23:16 · Psalms 106:35-41 · Jeremiah 10:5 · Exodus 20:2 · Nehemiah 9:26 · Judges 2:14-17
8and walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
Related2 Kings 16:3 · Leviticus 18:3 · Deuteronomy 18:9 · 2 Kings 21:2 · 1 Kings 12:28 · Jeremiah 10:2
9The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
10and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;
11and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom the LORD carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger;
12and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
RelatedDeuteronomy 5:7-9 · Deuteronomy 12:4 · Exodus 20:3-5 · Deuteronomy 4:23-25 · Leviticus 26:1 · Deuteronomy 4:15-19
13Yet the LORD 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.”
RelatedJeremiah 35:15 · 1 Samuel 9:9 · Jeremiah 18:11 · Nehemiah 9:29-30 · Deuteronomy 31:21 · Psalms 81:8-9
14Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in the LORD their God.
RelatedDeuteronomy 31:27 · Acts 7:51 · Deuteronomy 1:32 · 2 Chronicles 36:13 · Hebrews 3:12 · Jeremiah 7:26
15They 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 the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.
RelatedDeuteronomy 12:30-31 · Deuteronomy 32:21 · Romans 1:21-23 · Jeremiah 2:5 · Psalms 115:8 · Exodus 24:6-8
16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD 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.
Related1 Kings 16:31 · 1 Kings 14:23 · 1 Kings 12:28 · 1 Kings 14:15 · Deuteronomy 4:19 · 1 Kings 22:53
17They 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 the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
Related2 Kings 21:6 · 2 Kings 16:3 · Ezekiel 23:37 · Deuteronomy 18:10-12 · 1 Kings 21:20 · Psalms 106:37-38
18Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
Related1 Kings 12:20 · 1 Kings 11:13 · Hosea 11:12 · Deuteronomy 32:21-26 · 1 Kings 11:36 · 1 Kings 11:32
19Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
Related1 Kings 14:22-23 · 2 Kings 16:3 · 2 Chronicles 21:13 · 2 Chronicles 21:11 · Jeremiah 3:8-11 · Ezekiel 16:51-52
20The LORD 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.
Related2 Kings 15:29 · Jeremiah 6:30 · 2 Kings 13:3 · 2 Kings 13:7 · Deuteronomy 11:12 · 2 Thessalonians 1:9
21For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
Related1 Kings 11:11 · 1 Kings 11:31 · Isaiah 7:17 · 1 Kings 12:28-30 · 1 Kings 14:16 · 1 Kings 12:19-20
22The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them
23until the LORD 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.
24The 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.
Related2 Kings 18:34 · 2 Kings 17:30-31 · Matthew 10:5 · 2 Kings 19:13 · Isaiah 37:13 · 2 Kings 18:31
25So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn’t fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
Related2 Kings 17:41 · 2 Kings 17:34 · 2 Kings 17:32 · Ezekiel 14:15 · 2 Kings 17:28 · Jeremiah 15:3
26Therefore 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.”
27Then 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.”
28So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
29However 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.
Related1 Kings 12:31 · Micah 4:5 · Jeremiah 10:3-5 · Isaiah 44:9-20 · Psalms 135:15-18 · Romans 1:23
30The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
Related2 Kings 17:24
31and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Related2 Kings 17:24 · 2 Kings 17:17 · 2 Kings 19:37 · Ezra 4:9 · Deuteronomy 12:28 · Leviticus 18:21
32So they feared the LORD, and also made from among themselves priests of the high places for themselves, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
Related1 Kings 12:31 · 2 Kings 17:29 · 2 Kings 23:19 · 1 Kings 13:33 · Zephaniah 1:5 · 1 Kings 13:31
33They feared the LORD, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
34To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
RelatedGenesis 35:10 · Genesis 32:28 · Isaiah 48:1 · 2 Kings 17:27-28 · 2 Kings 17:25 · 2 Kings 17:33
35with whom the LORD 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;
RelatedJudges 6:10 · Exodus 34:12-17 · Joshua 23:7 · Exodus 20:4-5 · Deuteronomy 4:23-27 · Joshua 23:16
36but you shall fear the LORD, 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.
RelatedExodus 6:6 · Deuteronomy 6:13 · Exodus 9:15 · Leviticus 19:32 · Deuteronomy 12:5-6 · Deuteronomy 5:15
37The 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.
RelatedNehemiah 9:13-14 · Deuteronomy 12:32 · Deuteronomy 4:44-45 · Deuteronomy 5:31-6:2 · Leviticus 19:37 · Deuteronomy 31:9
38You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.
39But you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
40However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before.
41So these nations feared the LORD, 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.
RelatedMatthew 6:24 · Zephaniah 1:5 · 1 Kings 18:21 · 2 Kings 17:32-33 · Joshua 24:14-20 · Revelation 3:15-16
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