Complete KJV Holy Bible

12_2KI_17_01 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over
Israel nine years.

12_2KI_17_02 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were
before him.

12_2KI_17_03 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him
presents.

12_2KI_17_04 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt,
and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as [he had done] year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him
up, and bound him in prison.

12_2KI_17_05 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it
three years.

12_2KI_17_06 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria,
and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

12_2KI_17_07 For [so] it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought
them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

12_2KI_17_08 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of
Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

12_2KI_17_09 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God,
and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

12_2KI_17_10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

12_2KI_17_11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away
before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

12_2KI_17_12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

12_2KI_17_13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, [and by] all the seers,
saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments [and] my statutes, according to all the law which I
commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

12_2KI_17_14 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that
did not believe in the LORD their God.

12_2KI_17_15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies
which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that [were]
round about them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

12_2KI_17_16 And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, [even]
two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

12_2KI_17_17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and
enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

12_2KI_17_18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none
left but the tribe of Judah only.

12_2KI_17_19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel
which they made.

12_2KI_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.

12_2KI_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.

12_2KI_17_22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from
them;

12_2KI_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.

12_2KI_17_24 And the king of Assyria brought [men] from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from
Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed [them] in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they
possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

12_2KI_17_25 And [so] it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, [that] they feared not the LORD: therefore the
LORD sent lions among them, which slew [some] of them.

12_2KI_17_26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and
placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them,
and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

12_2KI_17_27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from
thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

12_2KI_17_28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and
taught them how they should fear the LORD.

12_2KI_17_29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put [them] in the houses of the high places which
the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

12_2KI_17_30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of
Hamath made Ashima,

12_2KI_17_31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to
Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

12_2KI_17_32 So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places,
which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

12_2KI_17_33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried
away from thence.

12_2KI_17_34 Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their
statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of
Jacob, whom he named Israel;

12_2KI_17_35 With whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods,
nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

12_2KI_17_36 But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm,
him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

12_2KI_17_37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye
shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.

12_2KI_17_38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.

12_2KI_17_39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

12_2KI_17_40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

12_2KI_17_41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their
children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.