2 Kings 17:8

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2 Kings 17:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.

7 All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods

8 and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.

9 The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.

10 They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

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2 Kings 16:3

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

2 Kings 16:10

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. On seeing the altar in Damascus, King Ahaz sent Uriah the priest a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction.

2 Kings 21:2

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

Leviticus 18:3

You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

Leviticus 18:27

For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

Leviticus 18:28

So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.

Leviticus 18:29

Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 18:30

You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”

Deuteronomy 12:30

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

1 Kings 12:28

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 16:31

And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.

1 Kings 16:32

First, Ahab set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he had built in Samaria.

1 Kings 16:33

Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.

1 Kings 21:26

He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

Psalms 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

Micah 6:16

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”