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So the king of Assyria arrested and imprisoned him. <span id="v12017005" class="ver">5</span>Then the king of Assyria<a id="rfn12017005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12017005-1">*</a> occupied the whole land and attacked Samaria, which he besieged for three years.</p> <h1 class="bksect">X. <span class="ac">The End of Israel</span><a id="rfn12017006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12017006-1">*</a></h1> <p class="paft"><span class="hemb">Israelites Deported.</span> <span id="v12017006" class="ver">6</span>In Hoshea’s ninth year, the king of Assyria took Samaria, deported the Israelites to Assyria, and settled them in Halah, and at the Habor, a river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.<a id="ren12017006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017006-b">b</a> <span id="v12017007" class="ver">7</span>This came about because the Israelites sinned against the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They venerated other gods, <span id="v12017008" class="ver">8</span><a id="ren12017008-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017008-c">c</a> they followed the rites of the nations whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had dispossessed before the Israelites and those that the kings of Israel had practiced. <span id="v12017009" class="ver">9</span>They adopted unlawful practices toward the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God. They built high places in all their cities, from guard post to garrisoned town. <span id="v12017010" class="ver">10</span>They set up pillars and asherahs<a id="rfn12017010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12017010-1">*</a> for themselves on every high hill and under every green tree. <span id="v12017011" class="ver">11</span>They burned incense there, on all the high places, like the nations whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had sent into exile at their coming. They did evil things that provoked the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, <span id="v12017012" class="ver">12</span>and served idols, although the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had told them: You must not do this.</p> <p><span id="v12017013" class="ver">13</span><a id="ren12017013-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017013-d">d</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer: Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your ancestors and which I sent you by my servants the prophets. <span id="v12017014" class="ver">14</span>But they did not listen. They grew as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who had not believed in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God.<a id="ren12017014-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017014-e">e</a> <span id="v12017015" class="ver">15</span>They rejected his statutes, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They followed emptiness and became empty; they followed the surrounding nations whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had commanded them not to imitate.<a id="ren12017015-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017015-f">f</a> <span id="v12017016" class="ver">16</span>They abandoned all the commandments of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God: they made for themselves two molten calves; they made an asherah; they bowed down to all the host of heaven; they served Baal.<a id="ren12017016-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017016-g">g</a> <span id="v12017017" class="ver">17</span><a id="ren12017017-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017017-h">h</a> They immolated their sons and daughters by fire. They practiced augury and divination. They surrendered themselves to doing what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, and provoked him.</p> <p><span id="v12017018" class="ver">18</span><a id="ren12017018-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017018-i">i</a> The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> became enraged, and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left. <span id="v12017019" class="ver">19</span>Even the people of Judah did not keep the commandments of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God, but followed the rites practiced by Israel. <span id="v12017020" class="ver">20</span>So the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> rejected the entire people of Israel: he afflicted them and delivered them over to plunderers, finally casting them from his presence.<a id="ren12017020-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017020-j">j</a> <span id="v12017021" class="ver">21</span>When he tore Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam, son of Nebat, king; but Jeroboam lured the Israelites away from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, causing them to commit a great sin.<a id="ren12017021-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017021-k">k</a> <span id="v12017022" class="ver">22</span>The Israelites imitated Jeroboam in all the sins he committed; they would not depart from them.</p> <p><span id="v12017023" class="ver">23</span>Finally, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> removed Israel from his presence, just as he had declared through all his servants, the prophets. Thus Israel went into exile from their native soil to Assyria until this very day.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Foreigners Deported to Israel.</span> <span id="v12017024" class="ver">24</span>The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities. <span id="v12017025" class="ver">25</span>When they first settled there, they did not venerate the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, so he sent lions among them that killed some of them. <span id="v12017026" class="ver">26</span>A report reached the king of Assyria: “The nations you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the proper worship of the god of the land, so he has sent lions among them that are killing them, since they do not know the law of the god of the land.” <span id="v12017027" class="ver">27</span>The king of Assyria gave the order, “Send back some of the priests you deported, to go there and settle, to teach them the proper worship of the god of the land.” <span id="v12017028" class="ver">28</span>So one of the priests who had been deported from Samaria returned and settled in Bethel, and began to teach them how to venerate the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v12017029" class="ver">29</span>Thus each of these nations continued to make its own gods, setting them up in the shrines of the high places the Samarians had made: each nation in the cities in which they dwelt. <span id="v12017030" class="ver">30</span>The Babylonians made Sukkot-Benot;<a id="rfn12017030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12017030-1">*</a> the people of Cuth made Nergal; those from Hamath made Ashima; <span id="v12017031" class="ver">31</span>those from Avva made Nibhaz and Tartak; and those from Sepharvaim immolated their children by fire to their city gods, King Hadad and King Anu. <span id="v12017032" class="ver">32</span>At the same time, they were venerating the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, appointing from their own number priests for the high places to officiate for them in the shrines on the high places. <span id="v12017033" class="ver">33</span>They were both venerating the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and serving their own gods. They followed the custom of the nations from among whom they had been deported.</p> <p><span id="v12017034" class="ver">34</span>To this very day they continue to act according to their former customs, not venerating the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> nor observing the statutes and regulations, the law and commandment, that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> enjoined on the descendants of Jacob, whom he had named Israel.<a id="ren12017034-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017034-l">l</a> <span id="v12017035" class="ver">35</span>When the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> made a covenant with them, he commanded them: You must not venerate other gods, nor bow down to them, nor serve them, nor offer sacrifice to them,<a id="ren12017035-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12017035-m">m</a> <span id="v12017036" class="ver">36</span>but only to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and outstretched arm. Him shall you venerate, to him shall you bow down, and to him shall you offer sacrifice. <span id="v12017037" class="ver">37</span>You must be careful always to observe the statutes and ordinances, the law and commandment, which he wrote for you; you must not venerate other gods. <span id="v12017038" class="ver">38</span>The covenant I made with you, you must not forget; you must not venerate other gods. <span id="v12017039" class="ver">39</span>You must venerate only the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God; it is he who will deliver you from the power of all your enemies. <span id="v12017040" class="ver">40</span>But they did not listen; they continued to act according to their former customs.</p> <p><span id="v12017041" class="ver">41</span>But these nations were both venerating the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and serving their own idols. Their children and children’s children are still acting like their ancestors, to this very day.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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