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He too defied the Lord’s will, yet not so wantonly as the other kings of Israel before him. (2 Kings 17, 2)
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)
and there they burnt incense on their altars, imitating the nations God had dispossessed before their onslaught. Foul deeds were done, to challenge the Lord’s anger, (2 Kings 17, 11)
shameless rites practised, such as the Lord had forbidden expressly. (2 Kings 17, 12)
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)
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)
consecrate their sons and daughters by passage through the fire, take their orders from wizard and soothsayer; enslave themselves to defiance of the Lord’s will, and provoke his vengeance. (2 Kings 17, 17)
So it was that the Lord, in anger, banished Israel from his presence, and the tribe of Juda stood alone (2 Kings 17, 18)
(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)
All Israel’s race, then, the Lord cast off; humbled them, and left them at the spoiler’s mercy; was ready, at last, to banish them from his presence altogether. (2 Kings 17, 20)
