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They despised his statutes and the covenant he had made with their fathers, and the warnings he had given them. They went after worthless idols and they themselves became worthless, following the nations which surrounded them, in spite of what Yahweh had said, "Do not do as they do." (2 Kings 17, 15)
Yet each of these nations made its own gods, and placed them in the sanctuaries on the hills which the Samaritans had built. Each of these nations put their god in the city where they settled: (2 Kings 17, 29)
They honored Yahweh but at the same time, served their own gods, according to the customs of the nations where they had been banished. (2 Kings 17, 33)
Have the gods of the nations rescued their land from the hands of the king of Assyria? (2 Kings 18, 33)
Who among all the gods of these nations has been able to save his country from me? Do you think that Yahweh will deliver Jerusalem from my hand?" (2 Kings 18, 35)
Have their gods saved the nations that my fathers destroyed? Gozan and Haran, Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? (2 Kings 19, 12)
"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, what Yahweh, the God of his father David, says: "I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. And now I will cure you. On the third day you will go up to the house of Yahweh. (2 Kings 20, 5)
He rebuilt the sanctuaries on the hills, which had been destroyed by Hezekiah his father. He built altars to the god Baal and made a sacred pillar similar to the one Ahab, king of Israel, had made. He knelt before all the stars of heaven and worshiped them. (2 Kings 21, 3)
But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them into doing things worse than those nations had done whom Yahweh had expelled before the Israelites. (2 Kings 21, 9)
He treated Yahweh badly, as his father Manasseh had done. (2 Kings 21, 20)
He completely followed in the footsteps of his father - he served the idols his father had served and bowed down before them. (2 Kings 21, 21)
He did everything that was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and followed in the footsteps of David, his father, without turning aside either to the right or to the left. (2 Kings 22, 2)
