2 Kings 17:13-18

English Standard Version

¹³ Yet the Lord ^(A)warned Israel and Judah ^(B)by every prophet ^(C)and every seer, saying, ^(D)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

¹⁴ But they would not listen, ^(E)but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They despised his statutes ^(F)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^(G)false idols ^(H)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^(I)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. ¹⁶ And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^(J)two calves; and they ^(K)made an Asherah and ^(L)worshiped all the host of heaven and served ^(M)Baal. ^17 (N)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings^[a] and used ^(O)divination and ^(P)omens and ^(Q)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^(R)the tribe of Judah only.