1In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 15:30
2And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 30:5-112 Kgs 10:312 Kgs 13:112 Kgs 13:22 Kgs 15:182 Kgs 15:242 Kgs 15:92 Kgs 3:2
3Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 10:142 Kgs 15:192 Kgs 15:292 Kgs 16:7-82 Kgs 18:312 Kgs 18:9-162 Kgs 19:36-372 Sam 8:22 Sam 8:6Isa 10:11-12
4And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 32:112 Kgs 18:14-152 Kgs 18:212 Kgs 24:12 Kgs 24:202 Kgs 25:7Ezek 17:13-19Isa 31:1-3Ps 149:7-8Isa 30:1-4
5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 13:162 Kgs 18:92 Kgs 25:1-3Jer 52:4-5
6In 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 13:161 Chr 5:26Deut 28:642 Kgs 18:10-11Amos 5:27Deut 28:36Deut 29:27-28Isa 13:17Isa 21:2Lev 26:32-33
7For 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, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 23:16Exod 20:2Jer 10:5Judg 2:14-17Neh 9:26Ps 106:35-411 Kgs 11:42 Chr 36:14-162 Chr 36:52 Kgs 16:2
8And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 16:3Deut 18:9Lev 18:31 Kgs 12:281 Kgs 16:31-331 Kgs 21:262 Kgs 16:102 Kgs 17:192 Kgs 21:2Deut 12:30-31
9And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 18:8Deut 13:6Deut 27:15Ezek 8:12Hos 12:11Job 31:27
10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 14:23Mic 5:142 Kgs 16:4Exod 34:13Deut 12:2-3Deut 16:21Isa 57:5Lev 26:1
11And 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 13:12 Chr 28:252 Kgs 21:6Jer 44:17Ps 78:56-58
12For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:4Deut 4:15-19Deut 4:23-25Deut 5:7-9Exod 20:3-5Exod 34:14Lev 26:1
13Yet 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 9:9Jer 35:15Jer 18:11Deut 31:21Neh 9:29-301 Chr 29:291 Sam 12:7-152 Chr 36:15-162 Kgs 17:232 Pet 3:9
14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 7:51Deut 31:272 Chr 36:13Deut 1:32Exod 32:9Heb 3:12Heb 3:7-8Isa 48:4Jer 7:26Prov 29:1
15And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:30-31Deut 32:21Jer 2:5Rom 1:21-231 Kgs 16:13Exod 24:6-8Jer 8:9Ps 115:81 Cor 8:41 Sam 12:21
16And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:281 Kgs 14:151 Kgs 14:231 Kgs 16:31Deut 4:191 Kgs 15:131 Kgs 16:331 Kgs 22:532 Kgs 11:182 Kgs 21:3
17And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 21:62 Kgs 16:31 Kgs 21:20Deut 18:10-12Ezek 23:37Mic 5:12Ps 106:37-381 Kgs 21:25Ezek 20:26Lev 18:21
18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 11:131 Kgs 12:201 Kgs 11:321 Kgs 11:36Deut 32:21-26Hos 11:122 Kgs 23:27Hos 9:32 Kgs 13:23Deut 29:20-28
19Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 14:22-232 Kgs 16:32 Chr 21:112 Chr 21:13Ezek 16:51-52Jer 3:8-112 Kgs 8:182 Kgs 8:27Ezek 22:2-16Ezek 23:4-13
20And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 15:292 Kgs 13:3Jer 6:301 Chr 16:131 Sam 15:231 Sam 15:261 Sam 16:12 Chr 28:5-62 Kgs 13:72 Kgs 15:18-20
21For 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 11:111 Kgs 11:311 Kgs 12:28-301 Kgs 14:16Isa 7:171 Kgs 12:19-201 Kgs 14:81 Sam 2:171 Sam 2:242 Chr 10:15-19
22For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 10:292 Kgs 10:312 Kgs 13:112 Kgs 13:22 Kgs 13:62 Kgs 15:92 Kgs 3:3
23Until 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 17:62 Kgs 17:131 Kgs 14:162 Kgs 17:202 Kgs 18:11-12Amos 5:27Hos 1:4-91 Kgs 13:22 Kgs 17:18Mic 1:6
24And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 18:342 Kgs 17:30-312 Kgs 19:13Matt 10:51 Kgs 8:652 Chr 33:112 Kgs 17:62 Kgs 18:31Isa 10:9Isa 37:13
25And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 17:322 Kgs 17:342 Kgs 17:411 Kgs 13:241 Kgs 20:362 Kgs 17:282 Kgs 2:24Dan 6:26Ezek 14:15Ezek 14:21
26Wherefore 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 10:251 Sam 8:92 Kgs 17:27Amos 8:14
27Then 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:311 Kgs 13:22 Chr 11:15Judg 17:13
28Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth–el, and taught them how they should fear the Lord. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:29-32Isa 29:13Matt 15:14
29Howbeit 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:31Mic 4:51 Kgs 13:32Hos 8:5-6Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:3-5Ps 115:4-8Ps 135:15-18Rom 1:23
30And the men of Babylon made Succoth–benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 17:24
31And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 17:172 Kgs 19:37Deut 12:28Deut 12:31Ezra 4:9Lev 18:21
32So 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:312 Kgs 17:291 Kgs 13:332 Kgs 23:19Zeph 1:51 Kgs 13:31
33They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 17:41Luke 16:13Matt 6:241 Kgs 18:21Zeph 1:5Hos 10:2
34Unto 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; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:28Gen 35:101 Kgs 18:312 Kgs 17:252 Kgs 17:27-282 Kgs 17:33Isa 48:11 Kgs 11:311 Kgs 18:11Gen 33:20
35With 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 6:10Deut 4:23-27Exod 20:4-5Exod 34:12-17Josh 23:16Josh 23:72 Kgs 17:15Deut 13:1-18Exod 24:6-8Heb 8:6-13
36But 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 6:6Deut 6:13Exod 9:15Lev 19:32Acts 4:30Deut 10:20Deut 12:11-12Deut 12:5-6Deut 5:15Jer 32:21
37And 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:32Deut 4:44-45Deut 5:31-6:2Lev 19:37Neh 9:13-14Deut 31:9Ps 105:44-451 Chr 29:19Deut 31:11Ps 19:8-11
38And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 4:23Deut 6:12Deut 8:14-18
39But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 12:24Luke 1:74-752 Kgs 17:36Jer 10:7Luke 1:50Matt 10:28Neh 9:27Isa 8:12-14Luke 1:71
40Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 17:122 Kgs 17:342 Kgs 17:8Deut 4:28Jer 13:23
41So 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 6:241 Kgs 18:21Zeph 1:52 Kgs 17:32-33Josh 24:14-20Ezra 4:1-3Rev 3:15-16