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II Kings Chapter 17

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The chapter records the final years of the reign of King Josiah, who dies and is succeeded by his son Jehoahaz, who is overthrown by the king of Aram. The people of Judah are disobedient, and the nation falls into apostasy, leading to the capture of Jerusalem and the exile of its people. The chapter underscores the consequences of turning away from God's law and the loss of national identity.

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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.
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II Kings 18:1II Kings 15:13II Kings 15:17II Chronicles 34:3I Kings 16:8I Kings 16:29

(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.
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II Kings 3:2II Kings 10:31II Kings 13:2II Kings 13:11II Kings 15:9II Kings 15:18II Kings 15:24II Chronicles 30:5II Chronicles 30:6II Chronicles 30:7II Chronicles 30:8II Chronicles 30:9

(3) Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
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II Kings 18:9Hosea 10:14II Kings 15:19II Kings 15:29II Kings 16:7II Kings 18:13II Kings 19:36II Kings 19:37Isaiah 7:7Isaiah 7:8Isaiah 10:5Isaiah 10:6

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II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:6II Kings 18:9

(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.
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II Kings 24:1II Kings 24:20Ezekiel 17:13Ezekiel 17:14Ezekiel 17:15Ezekiel 17:16Ezekiel 17:17Ezekiel 17:18Ezekiel 17:19II Kings 18:21Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2

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II Kings 17:6II Kings 15:20II Kings 15:29II Kings 16:9II Kings 18:11II Kings 18:14

(5) Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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II Kings 18:9II Kings 25:1II Kings 25:2II Kings 25:3Jeremiah 52:4Jeremiah 52:5

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II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:24II Kings 18:9

(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.
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II Kings 18:10II Kings 18:11Hosea 1:6Hosea 1:9Hosea 13:16Leviticus 26:32Leviticus 26:33Leviticus 26:38Deuteronomy 4:25Deuteronomy 4:26Deuteronomy 4:27Deuteronomy 4:28

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II Kings 18:11I Chronicles 5:26II Kings 17:4II Kings 15:29II Kings 16:9II Kings 17:24

(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,
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Deuteronomy 31:16Deuteronomy 31:17Deuteronomy 31:29Deuteronomy 32:15Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:18Deuteronomy 32:19Deuteronomy 32:20Deuteronomy 32:21Deuteronomy 32:22Deuteronomy 32:23

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Judges 10:6Deuteronomy 32:17Jeremiah 46:25Genesis 41:25

(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.
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II Kings 16:3II Kings 16:10II Kings 21:2Leviticus 18:3Leviticus 18:27Leviticus 18:28Leviticus 18:29Leviticus 18:30Deuteronomy 12:30Deuteronomy 12:31Deuteronomy 18:9I Kings 12:28

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Ezekiel 5:6Ezekiel 11:12

(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.
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Deuteronomy 13:6Deuteronomy 27:15Job 31:27Ezekiel 8:12II Kings 18:8Hosea 12:11

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II Kings 18:8Isaiah 5:2II Kings 15:35II Chronicles 33:19

(10) And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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II Kings 16:4Exodus 34:13Leviticus 26:1I Kings 14:23Isaiah 57:5Deuteronomy 16:21Micah 5:14Deuteronomy 12:2Deuteronomy 12:3

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I Kings 14:23Ezekiel 17:24Isaiah 41:19Joel 1:12II Chronicles 34:4Psalms 68:15

(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:
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I Kings 13:1II Chronicles 28:25Jeremiah 44:17II Kings 21:6Psalms 78:56Psalms 78:57Psalms 78:58

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II Kings 23:5Deuteronomy 32:21II Kings 21:6II Kings 22:17II Kings 23:19II Chronicles 28:25

(12) For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
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Exodus 20:3Exodus 20:4Exodus 20:5Exodus 34:14Leviticus 26:1Deuteronomy 4:19Deuteronomy 5:7Deuteronomy 5:8Deuteronomy 5:9Deuteronomy 4:15Deuteronomy 4:16Deuteronomy 4:17

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II Kings 21:21

(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.
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Deuteronomy 8:19Deuteronomy 31:21Nehemiah 9:29Nehemiah 9:30Psalms 50:7Psalms 81:8Psalms 81:9Jeremiah 42:19Acts 20:21II Chronicles 36:15II Chronicles 36:16Jeremiah 3:8

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Nehemiah 9:26Ezekiel 33:11Zechariah 1:4Zechariah 1:6I Samuel 10:11I Kings 18:4

(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.
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Deuteronomy 31:27II Chronicles 36:13Proverbs 29:1Isaiah 48:4Jeremiah 7:26Romans 2:4Romans 2:5Hebrews 3:7Hebrews 3:8Deuteronomy 1:32Psalms 78:22Psalms 78:32

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I Corinthians 14:22John 10:38

(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.
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Jeremiah 8:9Exodus 24:6Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:8Deuteronomy 29:10Deuteronomy 29:11Deuteronomy 29:12Deuteronomy 29:13Deuteronomy 29:14Deuteronomy 29:15Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26

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II Kings 23:3Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19II Chronicles 34:31Ezekiel 36:4I Chronicles 22:13

(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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Exodus 32:4Exodus 32:8I Kings 12:28Psalms 106:18Psalms 106:19Psalms 106:20Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 44:10II Kings 17:10I Kings 14:15I Kings 14:23I Kings 15:13

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II Kings 21:3II Chronicles 34:4Deuteronomy 17:3Judges 7:15II Kings 23:4II Chronicles 33:3

(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.
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II Kings 16:3II Kings 21:6Leviticus 18:21II Chronicles 28:3Psalms 106:37Psalms 106:38Ezekiel 20:26Ezekiel 20:31Ezekiel 23:37Ezekiel 23:39Deuteronomy 18:10Deuteronomy 18:11

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II Chronicles 33:6II Kings 21:6Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(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.
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II Kings 13:23II Kings 23:27Deuteronomy 29:20Deuteronomy 29:21Deuteronomy 29:22Deuteronomy 29:23Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28Deuteronomy 32:21

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Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62Numbers 34:14Numbers 36:7Joshua 20:8Joshua 21:4

(19) Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
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I Kings 14:22I Kings 14:23II Chronicles 21:11II Chronicles 21:13Jeremiah 2:28Jeremiah 3:8Jeremiah 3:9Jeremiah 3:10Jeremiah 3:11Ezekiel 16:51Ezekiel 16:52Ezekiel 22:2

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Ezekiel 5:6Ezekiel 5:7Ezekiel 18:9Ezekiel 20:21Amos 2:4Genesis 26:5

(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.
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II Kings 17:15I Samuel 15:23I Samuel 15:26I Samuel 16:1Jeremiah 6:30Romans 11:1Romans 11:2I Chronicles 16:13Nehemiah 9:2Isaiah 45:25Jeremiah 31:36Jeremiah 31:37

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26

(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.
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I Kings 11:11I Kings 11:31I Kings 14:8Isaiah 7:17I Kings 12:19I Kings 12:20II Chronicles 10:15II Chronicles 10:16II Chronicles 10:17II Chronicles 10:18II Chronicles 10:19I Kings 12:28

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I Kings 14:10I Kings 12:2II Chronicles 10:2I Kings 11:40I Kings 14:2I Kings 14:13

(22) For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
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II Kings 3:3II Kings 10:29II Kings 10:31II Kings 13:2II Kings 13:6II Kings 13:11II Kings 15:9

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II Kings 13:6II Kings 13:11I Kings 16:2II Kings 3:3II Kings 10:29II Kings 10:31

(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.
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II Kings 17:18II Kings 17:20II Kings 17:13I Kings 13:2I Kings 14:16Hosea 1:4Hosea 1:5Hosea 1:6Hosea 1:7Hosea 1:8Hosea 1:9Amos 5:27

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II Kings 15:29II Kings 16:9II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:6I Chronicles 5:26Esther 2:6

(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.
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Ezra 4:2Ezra 4:3Ezra 4:4Ezra 4:5Ezra 4:6Ezra 4:7Ezra 4:8Ezra 4:9Ezra 4:10II Kings 17:30II Chronicles 33:11II Kings 17:31

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II Kings 17:6Isaiah 3:24II Kings 17:26II Kings 18:34Isaiah 36:19I Kings 16:24

(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.
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II Kings 17:28II Kings 17:32II Kings 17:34II Kings 17:41Joshua 22:25Jeremiah 10:7Daniel 6:26Jonah 1:9II Kings 2:24I Kings 13:24I Kings 20:36Jeremiah 5:6

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Ephesians 4:11Nahum 2:11II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23Mark 4:8

(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.
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II Kings 17:27I Samuel 8:9I Samuel 10:25Amos 8:14

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II Kings 17:6II Kings 17:24Exodus 22:9I Samuel 17:30I Kings 22:20I Chronicles 22:15

(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.
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Judges 17:13I Kings 12:31I Kings 13:2II Chronicles 11:15

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II Kings 17:4II Kings 17:26II Kings 18:11

(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.
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I Kings 12:29I Kings 12:30I Kings 12:31I Kings 12:32Isaiah 29:13Matthew 15:14

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I Kings 13:11II Kings 17:24Esther 2:6

(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.
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Psalms 115:4Psalms 115:5Psalms 115:6Psalms 115:7Psalms 115:8Psalms 135:15Psalms 135:16Psalms 135:17Psalms 135:18Isaiah 44:9Isaiah 44:10Isaiah 44:11

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Jeremiah 5:15Judges 10:6Matthew 24:7Mark 13:8Jeremiah 2:11Jeremiah 19:13

(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.
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II Kings 17:24Ezra 4:9II Kings 17:17Leviticus 18:21Deuteronomy 12:28Deuteronomy 12:31

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Judges 10:6II Kings 18:34Isaiah 36:19

(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.
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I Kings 12:31I Kings 13:33II Kings 17:29II Kings 23:19I Kings 13:31

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I Kings 13:33II Kings 12:3II Kings 15:4II Kings 15:35I Kings 22:43II Kings 14:4

(33) They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
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II Kings 17:41I Kings 18:21Hosea 10:2Zephaniah 1:5Matthew 6:24Luke 16:13

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Judges 10:6II Kings 7:8Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 32:17Joshua 24:15Esther 2:6

(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;
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II Kings 17:25II Kings 17:27II Kings 17:28II Kings 17:33Genesis 32:28Genesis 33:20Genesis 35:10I Kings 11:31I Kings 18:11Isaiah 48:1

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II Kings 17:37Ezekiel 16:55Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(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:
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II Kings 17:15Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Exodus 24:6Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:8Deuteronomy 29:10Deuteronomy 29:11Deuteronomy 29:12Deuteronomy 29:13Deuteronomy 29:14Deuteronomy 29:15

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Exodus 34:15Joshua 24:15Judges 10:6Ezekiel 39:17Joshua 23:7I Samuel 16:5

(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.
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Exodus 6:6Exodus 9:15Deuteronomy 5:15Jeremiah 32:21Acts 4:30Leviticus 19:32Deuteronomy 6:13Deuteronomy 10:20Deuteronomy 12:5Deuteronomy 12:6Deuteronomy 12:11Deuteronomy 12:12

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Deuteronomy 9:29Jeremiah 32:17Daniel 11:6I Samuel 16:5Ezekiel 39:17

(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.
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Leviticus 19:37Deuteronomy 4:44Deuteronomy 4:45Deuteronomy 5:31Deuteronomy 5:32Deuteronomy 5:33Deuteronomy 6:1Deuteronomy 6:2Deuteronomy 12:32I Chronicles 29:19Psalms 19:8Psalms 19:9

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Judges 10:6II Kings 17:34Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(38) And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
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Deuteronomy 4:23Deuteronomy 6:12Deuteronomy 8:14Deuteronomy 8:15Deuteronomy 8:16Deuteronomy 8:17Deuteronomy 8:18

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Judges 10:6Exodus 34:15Leviticus 26:42II Kings 23:3Isaiah 49:15

(39) But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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II Kings 17:36I Samuel 12:24Isaiah 8:12Isaiah 8:13Isaiah 8:14Jeremiah 10:7Matthew 10:28Luke 1:50Nehemiah 9:27Luke 1:71Luke 1:74Luke 1:75

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II Kings 21:14

(40) Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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Jeremiah 13:23II Kings 17:8II Kings 17:12II Kings 17:34Deuteronomy 4:28

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I Samuel 8:9I Samuel 17:30Ezekiel 16:55

(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.
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II Kings 17:32II Kings 17:33Joshua 24:14Joshua 24:15Joshua 24:16Joshua 24:17Joshua 24:18Joshua 24:19Joshua 24:20I Kings 18:21Zephaniah 1:5Matthew 6:24

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Deuteronomy 7:5II Chronicles 34:4Isaiah 30:22Isaiah 42:17Micah 5:13

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