2 Kings 17:19
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
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2 Kings 17:19
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
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2 Kings 17:17
And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.
2 Kings 17:18
So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.
2 Kings 17:19
(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
2 Kings 17:20
So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)
2 Kings 17:21
For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.
2 Kings 17:22
And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;
2 Kings 17:23
Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.
2 Kings 16:3
But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:8
Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:10
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
2 Kings 17:11
Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;
2 Kings 13:23
But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.
2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.
Psalms 71:9
Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Jeremiah 33:24
Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.
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Jeremiah 3:7
And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it.
Jeremiah 3:8
And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
Jeremiah 3:9
So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
Jeremiah 3:10
But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:11
And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
Hosea 4:15
Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
Ezekiel 23:31
You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.
Ezekiel 23:32
This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.
Hosea 12:2
The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.
Ezekiel 23:11
And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.
Amos 2:4
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.
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2 Kings 17:12
And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.
2 Kings 17:13
And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.
2 Kings 17:14
And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.
2 Kings 17:15
And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.
2 Kings 17:16
And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:7
And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,
2 Kings 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.
2 Kings 18:9
Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.
Jeremiah 9:26
On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
Hosea 9:17
My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.
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2 Kings 8:18
He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Kings 8:27
He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.
Micah 6:16
For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.
1 Kings 14:22
And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
2 Chronicles 12:1
Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
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Ezekiel 23:12
She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.
Ezekiel 23:13
And I saw that she had become unclean; the two of them went the same way.
Ezekiel 23:14
And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,
Ezekiel 23:15
With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.
Ezekiel 23:16
And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.
Ezekiel 23:17
And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.
Ezekiel 23:18
So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:19
But still she went on the more with her loose behaviour, keeping in mind the early days when she had been a loose woman in the land of Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:20
And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.
Ezekiel 23:21
And she made the memory of the loose ways of her early years come back to mind, when her young breasts were crushed by the Egyptians.
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Jeremiah 32:30
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:31
For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face:
Jeremiah 32:32
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.
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