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11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she
 arose and destroyed all the seed royal.
11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took
 Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which
 were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber
 from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years.  And
 Athaliah did reign over the land.
11:4 And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over
 hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the
 house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them
 in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king's son.
11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A
 third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the
 watch of the king's house;
11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate of Sur; and a third part at the
 gate behind the guard:  so shall ye keep the watch of the house, that it be
 not broken down.
11:7 And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall
 keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons
 in his hand:  and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain:  and
 be ye with the king as he goeth out and as he cometh in.
11:9 And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that
 Jehoiada the priest commanded:  and they took every man his men that were
 to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and
 came to Jehoiada the priest.
11:10 And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's
 spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round
 about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of
 the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and
 gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and
 they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king.
11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people,
 she came to the people into the temple of the LORD.
11:14 And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner
 was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people
 of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets:  and Athaliah rent her
 clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
11:15 But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the
 officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the
 ranges:  and him that followeth her kill with the sword.  For the priest
 had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
11:16 And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the
 horses came into the king's house:  and there was she slain.
11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the
 people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and
 the people.
11:18 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake
 it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and
 slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.  And the priest appointed
 officers over the house of the LORD.
11:19 And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard,
 and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the
 house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the
 king's house.  And he sat on the throne of the kings.
11:20 And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: 
 and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
11:21 Seven years old was Jehoash when he began to reign.

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12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years
 reigned he in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his
 days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:3 But the high places were not taken away:  the people still sacrificed
 and burnt incense in the high places.
12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things
 that is brought into the house of the LORD, even the money of every one
 that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all
 the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the
 LORD,
12:5 Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance:  and
 let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be
 found.
12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash
 the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the other
 priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? 
 now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance, but deliver it
 for the breaches of the house.
12:8 And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people,
 neither to repair the breaches of the house.
12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of
 it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the
 house of the LORD:  and the priests that kept the door put therein all the
 money that was brought into the house of the LORD.
12:10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the
 chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up
 in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
12:11 And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did
 the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD:  and they laid
 it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the
 LORD,
12:12 And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone
 to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid
 out for the house to repair it.
12:13 Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver,
 snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of
 the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:
12:14 But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of
 the LORD.
12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they
 delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen:  for they dealt faithfully.
12:16 The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the
 LORD:  it was the priests'.
12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took
 it:  and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that
 Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had
 dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found
 in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and
 sent it to Hazael king of Syria:  and he went away from Jerusalem.
12:19 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not
 written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the
 house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.
12:21 For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his
 servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in
 the city of David:  and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of
 Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and
 reigned seventeen years.
13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed
 the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he
 departed not therefrom.
13:3 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered
 them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad
 the son of Hazael, all their days.
13:4 And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him:  for
 he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
13:5 (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under
 the hand of the Syrians:  and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents,
 as beforetime.
13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam,
 who made Israel sin, but walked therein:  and there remained the grove
 also in Samaria. )
13:7 Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and
 ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed
 them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his
 might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel?
13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: 
 and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash
 the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen
 years.
13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed
 not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: 
 but he walked therein.
13:12 And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might
 wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: 
 and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died.  And Joash
 the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O
 my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
13:15 And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows.  And he took unto him
 bow and arrows.
13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow.  And
 he put his hand upon it:  and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward.  And he opened it.  Then
 Elisha said, Shoot.  And he shot.  And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S
 deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria:  for thou shalt smite
 the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
13:18 And he said, Take the arrows.  And he took them.  And he said unto
 the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground.  And he smote thrice, and
 stayed.
13:19 And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have
 smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst
 consumed it:  whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him.  And the bands of the Moabites
 invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they
 spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: 
 and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived,
 and stood up on his feet.
13:22 But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
13:23 And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and
 had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and
 Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence
 as yet.
13:24 So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his
 stead.
13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad
 the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of
 Jehoahaz his father by war.  Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered
 the cities of Israel.

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14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned
 Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned
 twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jehoaddan
 of Jerusalem.
14:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not
 like David his father:  he did according to all things as Joash his father
 did.
14:4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away:  as yet the people did
 sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand,
 that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not:  according unto that
 which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD
 commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children,
 nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be
 put to death for his own sin.
14:7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by
 war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of
 Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying,
 The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon,
 saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife:  and there passed by a wild
 beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
14:10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: 
 glory of this, and tarry at home:  for why shouldest thou meddle to thy
 hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
14:11 But Amaziah would not hear.  Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up;
 and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at
 Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man
 to their tents.
14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of
 Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and
 brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner
 gate, four hundred cubits.
14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were
 found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house,
 and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and
 how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the
 book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the
 kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of
 Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
14:18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the
 book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
14:19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem:  and he fled to
 Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
14:20 And they brought him on horses:  and he was buried at Jerusalem with
 his fathers in the city of David.
14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years
 old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept
 with his fathers.
14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
 Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and
 reigned forty and one years.
14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:  he
 departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
 Israel to sin.
14:25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the
 sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he
 spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet,
 which was of Gathhepher.
14:26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: 
 for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
14:27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from
 under heaven:  but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his
 might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which
 belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the
 chronicles of the kings of Israel?
14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel;
 and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

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15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah
 son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and
 fifty years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jecholiah of
 Jerusalem.
15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
 to all that his father Amaziah had done;
15:4 Save that the high places were not removed:  the people sacrificed and
 burnt incense still on the high places.
15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his
 death, and dwelt in a several house.  And Jotham the king's son was over
 the house, judging the people of the land.
15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers
 in the city of David:  and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah
 the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his
 fathers had done:  he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
 Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him
 before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15:11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in
 the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:12 This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy
 sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation.  And
 so it came to pass.
15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth
 year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.
15:14 For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria,
 and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned
 in his stead.
15:15 And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made,
 behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
 Israel.
15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the
 coasts thereof from Tirzah:  because they opened not to him, therefore he
 smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem
 the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:  he
 departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who
 made Israel to sin.
15:19 And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land:  and Menahem gave
 Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to
 confirm the kingdom in his hand.
15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men
 of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of
 Assyria.  So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the
 land.
15:21 And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in
 his stead.
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of
 Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:  he
 departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
 sin.
15:25 But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against
 him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with
 Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites:  and he killed
 him, and reigned in his room.
15:26 And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold,
 they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of
 Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD:  he
 departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to
 sin.
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of
 Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and
 Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them
 captive to Assyria.
15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of
 Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the
 twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
15:31 And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they
 are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began
 Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he
 reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jerusha,
 the daughter of Zadok.
15:34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD:  he did
 according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
15:35 Howbeit the high places were not removed:  the people sacrificed and
 burned incense still in the high places.  He built the higher gate of the
 house of the LORD.
15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they
 not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
15:37 In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of
 Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
 the city of David his father:  and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

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16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
 Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen
 years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the
 LORD his God, like David his father.
16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son
 to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen,
 whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
 hills, and under every green tree.
16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came
 up to Jerusalem to war:  and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome
 him.
16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave
 the Jews from Elath:  and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto
 this day.
16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I
 am thy servant and thy son:  come up, and save me out of the hand of the
 king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up
 against me.
16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the
 LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present
 to the king of Assyria.
16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him:  for the king of Assyria
 went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it
 captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglathpileser king of Assyria,
 and saw an altar that was at Damascus:  and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the
 priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all
 the workmanship thereof.
16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz
 had sent from Damascus:  so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz
 came from Damascus.
16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar:  and
 the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his
 drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the
 altar.
16:14 And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the LORD,
 from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of
 the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great
 altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and
 the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering
 of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink
 offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and
 all the blood of the sacrifice:  and the brazen altar shall be for me to
 inquire by.
16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver
 from off them; and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were
 under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
16:18 And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and
 the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king
 of Assyria.
16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written
 in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
 the city of David:  and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

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17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah
 to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as
 the kings of Israel that were before him.
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his
 servant, and gave him presents.
17:4 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.
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up
 to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
17:6 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.
17:7 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,
17:8 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.
17:9 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.
17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under
 every green tree:
17:11 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:
17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall
 not do this thing.
17:13 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.
17:14 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.
17:15 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.
17:16 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.
17:17 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.
17:18 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.
17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked
 in the statutes of Israel which they made.
17:20 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.
17:21 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.
17:22 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he
 did; they departed not from them;
17:23 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.
17:24 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.
17:25 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.
17:26 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.
17:27 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.
17:28 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.
17:29 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.
17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succothbenoth, and the men of Cuth made
 Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
17:31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their
 children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
17:32 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.
17:33 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of
 the nations whom they carried away from thence.
17:34 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;
17:35 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:
17:36 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.
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.
17:38 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget;
 neither shall ye fear other gods.
17:39 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of
 the hand of all your enemies.
17:40 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
17:41 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.