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Chapter 17.

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In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah
began Hosea the son of Elah to reign in

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Samaria over Israel nine years.

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And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of

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Israel that were before him.

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Against him came up Shalmaneser king of
Assyria.

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And Hosea became his servant and gave him
presents.

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And the king of Assyria found conspiracy
in Hosea, for he had sent messengers to

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So, king of Egypt, and brought no present
to the king of Assyria, as he had done

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year by year.

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Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up
and bound him in prison.

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Then the king of Assyria came up
throughout all the land and went up to

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Samaria and besieged it three years.

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In the ninth year of Hosea the king of
Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel

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away into Assyria and placed them in Hela
and in Hebor, by the river of Gozan,

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and in the cities of the Medes.

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For so it was that the children of Israel
had sinned against the Lord their God,

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which had brought them up out of the land
of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh

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king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
and walked in the statutes of the heathen,

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whom the Lord cast out from before the
children of Israel, and of the kings of

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Israel, which they had made.

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And the children of Israel did secretly
those things that were not right against

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the Lord their God, and they built them
high places in all their cities,

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from the tower of the watchman to the
fence city.

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And they set them up images and groves in
every high hill and under every green

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tree, and there they burned incense in all
the high places, as did the heathen whom

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the Lord carried away before them,
and wrought wicked things to provoke the

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Lord to anger.

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For they served idols, whereof the Lord
had said unto them, Ye shall not do this

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thing.

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Yet the Lord testified against Israel and
against Judah by all the prophets and by

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all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your
evil ways, and keep my commandments and my

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statutes according to all the law which I
commanded your fathers, and which I sent

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to you by my servants the prophets.

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Notwithstanding they would not hear,
but hardened their necks like to the neck

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of their fathers, they did not believe in
the Lord their God.

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And they rejected his statutes and his
covenant that he made with their fathers,

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and his testimonies which he testified
against them.

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And they followed vanity, and became vain,
and went after the heathen that were round

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about them, concerning whom the Lord had
charged them, that they should not do like

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them.

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And they left all the commandments of the
Lord their God, and made them molten

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images, even two calves, and made a grove,
and worshipped all the hosts of heaven,

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and served Baal.

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And they caused their sons and their
daughters to pass through the fire,

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and used divination and enchantments,
and sold themselves to do evil in the

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sight of the Lord, to provoke him to
anger.

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Therefore the Lord was very angry with
Israel, and removed them out of his sight.

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There was none left but the tribe of Judah
only.

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Also Judah kept not the commandments of
the Lord their God, but walked in the

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statutes of Israel which they made.

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And the Lord rejected all the seed of
Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered

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them into the hand of spoilers,
until he had cast them out of his sight.

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For he rent Israel from the house of
David, and they made Jeroboam the son of

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Nebat king.

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And Jeroboam drove Israel from following
the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.

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For the children of Israel walked in all
the sins of Jeroboam which he did.

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They departed not from them, until the
Lord removed Israel out of his sight,

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as he had said by all his servants the
prophets.

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So was Israel carried away out of their
own land to Assyria unto this day.

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And the king of Assyria brought men from
Babylon, and from Kuthah, and from Avah,

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and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim,
and placed them in the cities of Samaria

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instead of the children of Israel.

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And they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in
the cities thereof.

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And so it was at the beginning of their
dwelling there, that they feared not the

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Lord.

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Therefore the Lord sent lions among them,
which slew some of them.

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Wherefore they spake to the king of
Assyria, saying, The nations which thou

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hast removed, and placed in the cities of
Samaria, know not the manner of the God of

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the land.

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Therefore he hath sent lions among them,
and behold they slay them, because they

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know not the manner of the God of the
land.

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Then the king of Assyria commanded,
saying, Carry thither one of the priests

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whom ye brought from thence, and let them
go and dwell there, and let him teach them

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the manner of the God of the land.

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Then one of the priests, whom they had
carried away from Samaria, came and dwelt

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in Bethel, and taught them how they should
fear the Lord.

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Howbeit every nation made gods of their
own, and put them in the houses of the

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high places, which the Samaritans had
made.

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Every nation in their cities wherein they
dwelt.

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And the men of Babylon made Succoth and
the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men

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of Hamath made Ashymer, and the Avites
made Nibhaz and Tartac, and the Sephavites

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burnt their children in fire to
Adrammelech and Anamelech, the gods of

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Sephavaim.

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So they feared the Lord, and made unto
themselves of the lowest of them priests

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of the high places, which sacrificed for
them in the houses of the high places.

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They feared the Lord, and served their own
gods after the manner of the nations whom

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they carried away from thence.

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Unto this day they do after the former
manners.

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They fear not the Lord, neither do they
after their statutes, or after their

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ordinances, or after the law and
commandment which the Lord commanded the

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children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

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With whom the Lord had made a covenant,
and charged them, saying, Ye shall not

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fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to
them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to

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them.

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But the Lord who brought you up out of the
land of Egypt with great power and a

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stretched out arm, him shall ye fear,
and him shall ye worship, and to him shall

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ye do sacrifice.

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And the statutes, and the ordinances,
and the law, and the commandment which he

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wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore, and ye shall not fear other

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gods.

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And the covenant that I have made with you
ye shall not forget, neither shall ye fear

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other gods, but the Lord your God ye shall
fear, and he shall deliver you out of the

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hand of all your enemies.

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

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So these nations feared the Lord,
and served their graven images,

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both their children and their children's
children.

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As did their fathers, so do they unto this
day.