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He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>This occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>and walked in the customs of the nations whom the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had introduced.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9992a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The people of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>they set up for themselves pillars and sacred poles<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-9994b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> on every high hill and under every green tree; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> carried away before them. They did wicked things, provoking the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> to anger; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>they served idols, of which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had said to them, “You shall not do this.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Yet the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their ancestors, and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had commanded them that they should not do as they did. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>They rejected all the commandments of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God and made for themselves cast images of two calves; they made a sacred pole,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-10000c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire; they used divination and augury; and they sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, provoking him to anger. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Therefore the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah alone.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Judah also did not keep the commandments of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel from following the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and made them commit great sin. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The people of Israel continued in all the sins that Jeroboam committed; they did not depart from them </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>until the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> removed Israel out of his sight, as he had foretold through all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Assyria Resettles Samaria</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria in place of the people of Israel; they took possession of Samaria, and settled in its cities. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When they first settled there, they did not worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; therefore the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> sent lions among them, which killed some of them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them; they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there; let him<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-10011d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> go and live there, and teach them the law of the god of the land.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>They also worshiped the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>So they worshiped the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>To this day they continue to practice their former customs.</span></p><p><span class="text">They do not worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had made a covenant with them and commanded them, “You shall not worship other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>but you shall worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to observe. You shall not worship other gods; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not worship other gods, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>but you shall worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God; he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>They would not listen, however, but they continued to practice their former custom.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>So these nations worshiped the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, but also served their carved images; to this day their children and their children’s children continue to do as their ancestors did.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 17:8">2 Kings 17:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 17:10">2 Kings 17:10</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Asherim</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 17:16">2 Kings 17:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>Asherah</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Kings 17:27">2 Kings 17:27</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr Vg: Heb <i>them</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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