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And from the Temple of Yahweh, in deference to the king of Assyria, he removed the dais for the throne which had been built inside, and the royal entrance on the outside. (2 Kings 16, 18)
Shalmaneser king of Assyria made war on Hoshea who submitted to him and paid him tribute. (2 Kings 17, 3)
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was playing a double game with him; he had sent messengers to Sais, to the king of Egypt, and had not, as in previous years, handed over the tribute to the king of Assyria. For this the king of Assyria imprisoned him in chains. (2 Kings 17, 4)
This happened because the Israelites had sinned against Yahweh their God who had brought them out of Egypt, out of the grip of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshipped other gods, (2 Kings 17, 7)
But they would not listen, they were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had no faith in Yahweh their God. (2 Kings 17, 14)
They despised his laws and the covenant which he had made with their ancestors and the warnings which he had given them. Pursuing futility, they themselves became futile through copying the nations round them, although Yahweh had ordered them not to act as they did. (2 Kings 17, 15)
Judah did not keep the commandments of Yahweh their God either but copied the practices which Israel had introduced. (2 Kings 17, 19)
The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites; these took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns. (2 Kings 17, 24)
Each nationality made gods of its own and put them in the shrines on the high places built by the Samaritans; each nationality did this in the towns where it lived. (2 Kings 17, 29)
The people from Babylon had made a Succoth-Benoth, the people from Cuthah a Nergal, the people from Hamath an Ashima, (2 Kings 17, 30)
They worshipped Yahweh as well, and they appointed priests out of their own number for the high places, and these officiated in the shrines on the high places. (2 Kings 17, 32)
They still follow their old rites even now. They did not worship Yahweh and did not conform to his statutes or ritual, or the law or the commandments, which Yahweh had laid down for the sons of Jacob to whom he gave the name Israel. (2 Kings 17, 34)
