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Kings 17:7-16
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.
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