2 Kings 17:7-20 - Why Israel Fell

⁷ And it will be that the sons of Israel sinned against Jehovah their God, having brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they will fear,other gods. ⁸ And they will go in the laws of the nations which Jehovah dispossessed from the face of the sons of Israel, and the kings of Israel which they made. ⁹ And the sons of Israel will cover the words not thus concerning Jehovah their God, and they will build to them heights in all their cities from the tower of those watching even to the fortified city. ¹⁰ And they will set to them statues and images upon every high hill, and under every green tree. ¹¹ And they will burn incense there in all the heights as the nations which Jehovah carried into exile from their face; and they will do evil words to irritate Jehovah: ¹² And they will serve blocks which Jehovah said to them, Ye shall not do this word. ¹³ And Jehovah will testify in Israel and in Judah by the hand of all his prophets, all seeing, saying, Turn back from your evil ways and watch my commands, my laws according to all my instruction which I commanded your fathers, and which I Sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.

¹⁴ And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God. ¹⁵ And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.

¹⁶ And they will forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten thing, two Calves; and they will make images, and they will worship to all the army of the heavens, and serve Baal. ¹⁷ And they will cause their sons and their daughters to pass through in fire, and divine divinations and enchantments, and they will be sold to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah to Irritate him.

¹⁸ And Jehovah will be greatly angry against Israel, and he will remove them from his face: not to leave only the tribe of Judah alone. ¹⁹ Also Judah watched not the commands of Jehovah their God, and they will go in the laws of Israel which they made. ²⁰ And Jehovah will reject in all the seed of Israel, and will afflict them, and he will give them into the hand of plunderers, till he cast them from his face.