Discovery Box| (1.00) | 2Ki 16:12 |
| When the king arrived back from Damascus and 1 saw the altar, he approached it 2 and offered a sacrifice on it. 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 16:13 |
| He offered his burnt sacrifice and his grain offering. He poured out his libation and sprinkled the blood from his peace offerings on the altar. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:4 |
| The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. 1 Hoshea had sent messengers to King So 2 of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him. 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:7 |
| This happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt and freed them from the power of 1 Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped 2 other gods; |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:12 |
| They worshiped 1 the disgusting idols 2 in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:15 |
| They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. 1 They paid allegiance to 2 worthless idols, and so became worthless to the Lord. 3 They copied the practices of the surrounding nations in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. 4 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:16 |
| They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, 1 and worshiped 2 Baal. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:22 |
| The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate 1 them. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:25 |
| When they first moved in, 1 they did not worship 2 the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them and the lions were killing them. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:26 |
| The king of Assyria was told, 1 “The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land, so he has sent lions among them. They are killing the people 2 because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.” |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:28 |
| So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. 1 He taught them how to worship 2 the Lord. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:29 |
| But each of these nations made 1 its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria 2 had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:30 |
| The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, 1 the people from Cuth made Nergal, 2 the people from Hamath made Ashima, 3 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:31 |
| the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 1 and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, 2 the gods of Sepharvaim. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:32 |
| At the same time they worshiped 1 the Lord. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places. 2 |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:33 |
| They were worshiping 1 the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:34 |
| To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship 1 the Lord; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the Lord gave 2 the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:35 |
| The Lord made an agreement 1 with them 2 and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:36 |
| Instead you must worship the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt by his great power and military ability; 1 bow down to him and offer sacrifices to him. |
| (1.00) | 2Ki 17:37 |
| You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods. |
