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2 Kings 17 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:1 - In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:2 - He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:3 - Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

Israel Captive

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

Why Israel Fell

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:8 - Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:14 - And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:22 - And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

Cities of Israel Filled with Strangers

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:25 - Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:27 - Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 - So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:31 - The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:32 - So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:33 - They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:38

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:40 - But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 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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