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Next, Jehu called a general assembly of the people, and told them, It was but scant worship Achab paid to Baal; Jehu means to pay him greater worship yet. (2 Kings 10, 18)
Thus Jehu abolished the worship of Baal in Israel. (2 Kings 10, 28)
Yet he would not forgo the sins of Jeroboam son of Nabat, that taught Israel to sin; at Bethel and at Dan the golden calves had their worship still. (2 Kings 10, 29)
This Joas made a proclamation to the priests; Here are gifts being brought to the temple all the while by pious folk that worship there, one paying a ransom for his life, another contributing as his devotion moves him. (2 Kings 12, 4)
Afterwards, they took their forms of worship from the very nations the Lord had driven out to make room for them, or from kings who imitated their ways. (2 Kings 17, 8)
With false inventions these Israelites offended the Lord that was their own God, making themselves mountain shrines in all their townships from lonely hamlet to walled city.✻ (2 Kings 17, 9)
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)
Forgotten, all the commandments of the Lord their God; they must have two golden calves, they must have sacred trees, they must worship all the host of heaven, and become Baal’s servants; (2 Kings 17, 16)
(not that even these kept the commandments of the Lord their God; these too strayed into false paths, of Israel’s making). (2 Kings 17, 19)
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)
So the Assyrian king gave orders that one of the priests carried away thence should be restored to his home; should go to live among them, and teach them how to worship the Lord. (2 Kings 17, 27)
With them he made a covenant; and by that covenant they were to give alien gods neither fear nor reverence, neither worship nor sacrifice. (2 Kings 17, 35)
