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No high hill, no leafy wood, but had its images and its sacred trees; (2 Kings 17, 10)
The Lord did not leave himself without witness; by prophet and seer he warned them, Come back from these graceless ways, follow precept and observance of mine; as the law bids you, that I enjoined on your fathers; as the prophets bade you, my servants that spoke in my name. (2 Kings 17, 13)
But they gave him never a hearing; strained at his yoke; they would be like their fathers, obstinately defying the Lord their God. (2 Kings 17, 14)
The usages he had taught them, the covenant he had made with their fathers, the warnings he had given them by his prophets, all lightly cast aside, to false rites they betook themselves, and learned false ways; imitated the forbidden example of the heathen round about them. (2 Kings 17, 15)
So it was decreed, from the time when the Israelites first cut themselves off from David’s line, and made Jeroboam, son of Nabat, their king; Jeroboam it was that drove men away from the Lord’s worship, and taught them to commit heinous sin. (2 Kings 17, 21)
And now the Assyrian king brought men from Babylon, and Cutha, and Avah, and Emath, and Sepharvaim, and settled these, instead of the Israelites, in the cities that belonged to Samaria. So they took possession of it, and made their homes in its cities, (2 Kings 17, 24)
but at their first coming they paid the Lord no reverence, and thereupon he sent a plague of lions, that preyed upon them. (2 Kings 17, 25)
but still each nation would fashion the image of its own god, and they set up these images in the hill-shrines they had made, one in this city and another in that. (2 Kings 17, 29)
The men of Babylon must have Socoth-Benoth, and the Chutaeans Nergel, and the Emathites Asima, (2 Kings 17, 30)
but though they worshipped the Lord, they still paid court to their own gods with the usages of their own folk, learned before ever they came to Samaria. (2 Kings 17, 33)
scattered the hill-shrines, overthrew the images, cut down the sacred trees; broke in pieces, too, the brazen serpent Moses had made, because the Israelites, till his day, used to offer incense to it; the name given to it was Nohestan.✻ (2 Kings 18, 4)
In the Lord God of Israel he put all his trust; never was a king of Juda to rival him before or after; (2 Kings 18, 5)
