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2 Kings 17 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:1 - In the twelfth year of Achaz king of Juda [fn]began Osee the son of Ela to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:2 - And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, only not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:3 - Against him came up Salamanassar king of the Assyrians; and Osee became his servant, and rendered him tribute.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - And the king of the Assyrians found iniquity in Osee, in that he sent messengers to Segor king of Egypt, and brought not a tribute to the king of the Assyrians in that year: and the king of the Assyrians besieged him, and bound him in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:5 - And the king of the Assyrians went up [fn]against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:6 - In the ninth year of Osee the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to the Assyrians, and settled them in Alae, and in Abor, near the rivers of Gozan, and in the mountains of the Medes.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:7 - For it came to pass that the children of Israel had transgressed against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharao king of Egypt, and they feared other gods,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:8 - and walked in the [fn]statutes of the nations which the Lord cast out before the face of the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel as many as did such things,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:9 - and in those of the children of Israel as many as [fn]secretly practised customs, not as they should have done, against the Lord their God:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:10 - and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the [fn]fortified city. And they made for themselves pillars and groves on every high hill, and under every shady tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - And burned incense there on all high places, as the nations did whom the Lord removed from before them, and dealt with familiar spirits, and they carved images to provoke the Lord to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, Ye shall not do this thing against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:13 - And the Lord testified against Israel and against Juda, even by the hand of all his prophets, and of every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, and all the law which I commanded your fathers, and all that I sent to them by the hand of my servants the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:14 - But they hearkened not, and made their [fn]neck harder than the neck of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - And they kept not any of his testimonies which he charged them; and they walked after vanities, and became vain, and after the nations round about them, concerning which the Lord had charged them not to do accordingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves [fn]graven images, even two heifers, and they made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and auspices, and [fn]sold themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:18 - And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; and there was only left the tribe of Juda quite alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:19 - Nay even Juda kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but they walked according to the customs of Israel which they practised, and rejected the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:20 - And the Lord was angry with the whole seed of Israel, and [fn]troubled them, and gave them into the hand of them that spoiled them, until he cast them out of his presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:21 - [fn]Forasmuch as Israel revolted from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nabat king: and Jeroboam drew off Israel from following the Lord, and led them to sin a great sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:22 - And the children of Israel walked in all the sin of Jeroboam which he committed; they departed not from it,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:23 - until the Lord removed Israel from his presence, as the Lord spoke by [fn]all his servants the prophets; and Israel was removed from off their land to the Assyrians until this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:24 - And the king of Assyria brought from Babylon the men of Chutha, and men from Aia, and from Æmath, and Seppharvaim, and they were settled in the cities of Samaria in the place of the children of Israel: and they inherited Samaria, and were settled in its cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:25 - And it was so at the beginning of their establishment there that they feared not the Lord, and the Lord sent lions among them, and they slew some of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - And they spoke to the king of the Assyrians, saying, The nations whom thou hast removed and substituted in the cities of Samaria for the Israelites, know not [fn]the manner of the God of the land: and he has sent the lions against them, and, behold, they are slaying them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:27 - And the king of the Assyrians commanded, saying, Bring some Israelites thence, and let them go and dwell there, and they shall teach them the manner of the God of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:28 - And they brought one of the priests whom they had removed from Samaria, and he settled in Bæthel, and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - But the nations made each their own gods, and put them in the house of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities in which they dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:30 - And the men of Babylon made Socchoth Benith, and the men of Chuth made Ergel, and the men of Hæmath made Asimath.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:31 - And the Evites made Eblazer and Tharthac, and the inhabitant of Seppharvaim did evil when they burnt their sons in the fire to Adramelech and Anemelech, the gods of Seppharvaim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:32 - And they feared the Lord, yet they established their abominations in the houses of the high places which they made in Samaria, each nation in the city in which they dwelt: and they feared the Lord, and they made for themselves priests of the high places, and sacrificed for themselves in the house of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:33 - And they feared the Lord, and served their gods according to the manner of the nations, whence their lords brought them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:34 - Until this day they did according to their manner: they fear the Lord, and they do according to their customs, and according to their manner, and according to the law, and according to the commandment which the Lord commanded the sons of Jacob, whose name he made Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:35 - And the Lord made a covenant with them, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, neither shall ye worship them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:36 - but only to the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great strength and with a high arm: him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship; to him shall ye sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:37 - Ye shall observe continually the ordinances, and the judgments, and the law, and the commandments which he wrote for you to do; and ye shall not fear other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:38 - Neither shall ye forget the covenant which he made with you: and ye shall not fear other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:39

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:39 - But ye shall fear the Lord your God, and he shall deliver you from all your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:40 - Neither shall ye comply with their practice, which they follow.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:41 - So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images: yea, their sons and their sons' sons do until this day even as their fathers did.
BES Footnotes
Gr. reigned.
Or, through.
Or, customs.
Gr. cloaked matters.
Gr. strong.
Gr. back. Heb. back part of the neck.
Gr. a graven image.
Gr. were sold.
Or, unsettled them.
The Complut. is better, πλὴν ὅτι ἐῤῤάγη ὁ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπ᾿οἴκου κ.τ.λ.
Gr. by the hand of.
Gr. judgment. Hebraism.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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