2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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2 Kings 17:10
And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
1 Kings 14:15
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
Micah 5:14
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
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2 Kings 17:5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
2 Kings 17:19
Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
2 Kings 17:20
And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
2 Kings 17:21
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
2 Kings 17:22
For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
2 Kings 17:23
Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
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