These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Kings 17
Tanakh 41 verses
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In the twelfth year of Ahaz of began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in over , and reigned nine years.
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of , yet not as the kings of that were before him.
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- 3 Against him came up Shalmaneser of ; and Hoshea became his , and brought him presents.
- 4 And the of found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So of , and offered no present to the of , as he had done year by year; therefore the of shut him up, and bound him in prison.
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Then the of came up throughout all the land, and went up to , and besieged it three years.
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In the ninth year of Hoshea, the of took , and carried away unto , and placed them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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And it was so, because the children of had sinned against their , who brought them up out of the land of from under the hand of Pharaoh of , and had feared other Elohims,
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Joshua 23:16 Exodus 20:2 Nehemiah 9:26 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Deuteronomy 32:15-52 Exodus 14:15-30 Hosea 8:5-14 Ezekiel 23:2-16 Jeremiah 10:5 1 Kings 11:4 2 Kings 17:35 Judges 2:14-17 1 Kings 15:3 2 Chronicles 36:5 Psalm 106:35-41 2 Kings 16:2 Hosea 4:1-3 Deuteronomy 31:16-17 Judges 6:10 Deuteronomy 31:29 - 8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom cast out from before the children of , and of the kings of , which they practised;
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and the children of did impute things that were not right unto their , and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
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and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every leafy tree;
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and there they offered in all the high places, as did the nations whom carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke ;
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- 12 and they served idols, whereof had said unto them: ‘Ye shall not do this thing’;
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yet forewarned , and , by the hand of every , and of every , saying: ‘Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets’;
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Jeremiah 18:11 1 Samuel 9:9 Jeremiah 35:15 Nehemiah 9:29-30 Ezekiel 18:31 Jeremiah 7:3-7 Jeremiah 42:19 Hosea 4:15 Jeremiah 7:22-23 2 Peter 3:9 Isaiah 55:6-7 Jeremiah 25:4-5 Psalm 50:7 Judges 10:11-14 Zechariah 1:3-6 Deuteronomy 4:26 Jeremiah 3:8-11 Jeremiah 5:29-31 Deuteronomy 31:21 2 Kings 17:23 1 Chronicles 29:29 Joshua 23:16 Jeremiah 26:4-6 Psalm 81:8-9 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 1 Samuel 12:7-15 Deuteronomy 8:19 Judges 6:10 Hosea 14:1 Acts 20:21 Isaiah 1:5-24 - 14 notwithstanding they would not , but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in their ;
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and they rejected His statutes, and His that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies wherewith He testified against them; and they went after things of nought, and became nought, and after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom had charged them that they should not do like them;
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Deuteronomy 12:30-31 Deuteronomy 32:21 Jeremiah 2:5 Romans 1:21-23 1 Kings 16:13 Jeremiah 8:9 Exodus 24:6-8 Deuteronomy 6:17-18 1 Samuel 12:21 2 Kings 17:8 2 Kings 17:11-12 1 Corinthians 8:4 Jeremiah 10:15 2 Chronicles 33:9 Jeremiah 31:32 2 Chronicles 33:2 Deuteronomy 32:31 2 Chronicles 36:15-16 Deuteronomy 29:25-26 John 2:8 Nehemiah 9:29-30 Psalm 115:8 Deuteronomy 29:10-15 Jeremiah 44:4 Nehemiah 9:26 Jeremiah 44:23 Jeremiah 10:8 - 16 and they forsook all the commandments of their , and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of , and served Baal;
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and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and gave themselves over to do that which was evil in the sight of , to provoke Him;
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2 Kings 21:6 Deuteronomy 18:10-12 1 Kings 21:20 2 Kings 16:3 Ezekiel 23:37 Leviticus 19:26 Leviticus 18:21 Micah 5:12 Psalm 106:37-38 Ezekiel 20:26 2 Chronicles 33:6 Isaiah 50:1 Isaiah 47:12-13 Ezekiel 23:39 1 Kings 21:25 Jeremiah 27:9 2 Kings 17:11 Isaiah 47:9 Galatians 5:26 Ezekiel 20:31 2 Chronicles 28:3 Acts 16:16 Isaiah 8:19 - 18 that was very angry with , and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but the tribe of only.
- 19 Also kept not the commandments of their , but walked in the statutes of which they practised.
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And rejected all the seed of , and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
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2 Kings 15:29 Jeremiah 6:30 2 Kings 13:3 Nehemiah 9:27-28 1 Samuel 16:1 Nehemiah 9:2 2 Kings 18:9 1 Samuel 15:26 2 Chronicles 28:5-6 Jeremiah 31:36-37 2 Kings 17:15 Deuteronomy 11:12 2 Thessalonians 1:9 Matthew 25:41 Jonah 1:10 1 Chronicles 16:13 Romans 11:1-2 Jonah 1:3 2 Kings 13:7 Isaiah 45:25 Jeremiah 33:24-26 Jeremiah 46:28 1 Samuel 15:23 2 Kings 17:18 2 Kings 15:18-20 - 21 For He rent from the house of ; and they made the son of Nebat ; and drew away from following , and made them sin a great sin.
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And the children of walked in all the sins of which he did; they departed not from them;
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until removed out of His sight, as He spoke by the hand of all His servants the prophets. So was carried away out of their own land to , unto this day.
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- 24 And the of brought men from , and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of instead of the children of ; and they possessed , and dwelt in the cities thereof.
- 25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not ; therefore sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
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Wherefore they spoke to the of , saying: ‘The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of , not the manner of the of the land; therefore He hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they not the manner of the of the land.’
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Then the of commanded, saying: ‘Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the of the land.’
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So one of the priests whom they had carried away from came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should .
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Howbeit every nation made Elohims of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
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And the men of made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
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and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the Elohims of Sepharvaim.
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So they feared , and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
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They feared , and served their own Elohims, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
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- 34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they not , neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the or after the which commanded the children of , whom He named ;
- 35 with whom had made a , and charged them, saying: ‘Ye shall not other Elohims, nor bow down to them, nor them, nor to them;
- 36 but , who brought you up out of the land of with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him shall ye , and Him shall ye , and to Him shall ye ;
- 37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the and the , which He wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not other Elohims;
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and the that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye other Elohims;
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but your shall ye ; and He will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.’
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Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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So these nations feared , and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children’s children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
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