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1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Ju­dah be­gan Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Is­rael nine years. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Is­rael that were be­fore him. 3 Against him came up Shal­maneser king of As­syr­ia; and Hoshea be­came his ser­vant, and gave him pre­sents. 4 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. 5 Then the king of As­syr­ia came up through­out all the land, and went up to Samaria, and be­sieged it three years. 6 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. 7 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, 8 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. 9 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. 10 And they set them up im­ages and groves in ev­ery high hill, and un­der ev­ery green tree: 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 For they served idols, where­of the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 19 Also Ju­dah kept not the com­mand­ments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Is­rael which they made. 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. 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. 22 For the chil­dren of Is­rael walked in all the sins of Jer­oboam which he did; they de­part­ed not from them; 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 30 And the men of Baby­lon made Suc­coth­benoth, and the men of Cuth made Ner­gal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 And the Avites made Nib­haz and Tar­tak, and the Sepharvites burnt their chil­dren in fire to Adram­m­elech and Anam­m­elech, the gods of Sephar­vaim. 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. 33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, af­ter the man­ner of the na­tions whom they car­ried away from thence. 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; 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: 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. 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. 38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not for­get; nei­ther shall ye fear oth­er gods. 39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall de­liv­er you out of the hand of all your en­e­mies. 40 How­beit they did not hear­ken, but they did af­ter their for­mer man­ner. 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.