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2 Kings 17:26
So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.

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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 17:35
And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

2 Kings 17:36
But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

2 Kings 17:37
And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.

2 Kings 17:38
And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

2 Kings 17:39
And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.

2 Kings 17:40
But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

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2 Kings 17:34
So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

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2 Kings 17:41
So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

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