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Hoshea
Reigns over Israel |
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| 2 Kings 17:1 |
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In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea
the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned nine years. |
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| 2 Kings 17:2 |
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He did evil in the sight of the LORD, only not
as the kings of Israel who were before him. |
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| 2 Kings 17:3 |
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Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid him tribute. |
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| 2 Kings 17:4 |
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But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in
Hoshea, who had sent messengers to So king of Egypt and had offered no tribute
to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria shut
him up and bound him in prison. |
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| 2 Kings 17:5 |
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Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land
and went up to Samaria and besieged it three years. |
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Israel
Captive |
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| 2 Kings 17:6 |
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In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria
captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them
in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. |
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Why
Israel Fell |
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| 2 Kings 17:7 |
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Now this came about because the sons of Israel
had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of
Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other
gods |
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| 2 Kings 17:8 |
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and walked in the customs of the nations whom
the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings
of Israel which they had introduced. |
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| 2 Kings 17:9 |
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The sons of Israel did things secretly which
were not right against the LORD their God. Moreover, they built for themselves
high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. |
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| 2 Kings 17:10 |
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They set for themselves sacred pillars and Asherim
on every high hill and under every green tree, |
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| 2 Kings 17:11 |
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and there they burned incense on all the high
places as the nations did which the LORD had carried away to exile before them;
and they did evil things provoking the LORD. |
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| 2 Kings 17:12 |
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They served idols, concerning which the LORD
had said to them, "You shall not do this thing." |
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| 2 Kings 17:13 |
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Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through
all His prophets and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My
commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers,
and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets." |
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| 2 Kings 17:14 |
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However, they did not listen, but stiffened
their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. |
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| 2 Kings 17:15 |
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They rejected His statutes and His covenant
which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And
they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded
them, concerning which the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. |
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| 2 Kings 17:16 |
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They forsook all the commandments of the LORD
their God and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an
Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. |
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| 2 Kings 17:17 |
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Then they made their sons and their daughters
pass through the fire, and practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him. |
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| 2 Kings 17:18 |
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So the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed
them from His sight; none was left except the tribe of Judah. |
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| 2 Kings 17:19 |
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Also Judah did not keep the commandments of
the LORD their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced. |
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| 2 Kings 17:20 |
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The LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel
and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast
them out of His sight. |
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| 2 Kings 17:21 |
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When He had torn Israel from the house of David,
they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from
following the LORD and made them commit a great sin. |
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| 2 Kings 17:22 |
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The sons of Israel walked in all the sins of
Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them |
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| 2 Kings 17:23 |
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until the LORD removed Israel from His sight,
as He spoke through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away
into exile from their own land to Assyria until this day. |
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Cities
of Israel Filled with Strangers |
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| 2 Kings 17:24 |
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The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon
and from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and settled them
in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of Israel. So they possessed Samaria
and lived in its cities. |
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| 2 Kings 17:25 |
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At the beginning of their living there, they
did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them which killed some
of them. |
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| 2 Kings 17:26 |
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So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying,
"The nations whom you have carried away into exile in the cities of Samaria do
not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and
behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the god of the land." |
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| 2 Kings 17:27 |
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Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying,
"Take there one of the priests whom you carried away into exile and let him go
and live there; and let him teach them the custom of the god of the land." |
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| 2 Kings 17:28 |
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So one of the priests whom they had carried
away into exile from Samaria came and lived at Bethel, and taught them how they
should fear the LORD. |
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| 2 Kings 17:29 |
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But every nation still made gods of its own
and put them in the houses of the high places which the people of Samaria had
made, every nation in their cities in which they lived. |
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| 2 Kings 17:30 |
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The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the
men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, |
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| 2 Kings 17:31 |
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and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and
the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech
the gods of Sepharvaim. |
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| 2 Kings 17:32 |
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They also feared the LORD and appointed from
among themselves priests of the high places, who acted for them in the houses
of the high places. |
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| 2 Kings 17:33 |
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They feared the LORD and served their own gods
according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away
into exile. |
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| 2 Kings 17:34 |
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To this day they do according to the earlier
customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow their statutes or their
ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of
Jacob, whom He named Israel; |
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| 2 Kings 17:35 |
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with whom the LORD made a covenant and commanded
them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to them
nor serve them nor sacrifice to them. |
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| 2 Kings 17:36 |
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But the LORD, who brought you up from the land
of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, and
to Him you shall bow yourselves down, and to Him you shall sacrifice. |
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| 2 Kings 17:37 |
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The statutes and the ordinances and the law
and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever; and
you shall not fear other gods. |
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| 2 Kings 17:38 |
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The covenant that I have made with you, you
shall not forget, nor shall you fear other gods. |
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| 2 Kings 17:39 |
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But the LORD your God you shall fear; and He
will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies." |
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| 2 Kings 17:40 |
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However, they did not listen, but they did according
to their earlier custom. |
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| 2 Kings 17:41 |
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So while these nations feared the LORD, they
also served their idols; their children likewise and their grandchildren, as their
fathers did, so they do to this day. |
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