17:1 In
the
twelfth
year
of
Ahaz
king
of
Judah,
Hoshea
the
son
of
Elah
began
to
reign
in
Samaria
over
Israel,
and
he
reigned
nine
years.
17:2 And
he
did
what
was
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
yet
not
as
the
kings
of
Israel
who
were
before
him.
17:3 Against
him
came
up
Shalmaneser
king
of
Assyria.
And
Hoshea
became
his
vassal
and
paid
him
tribute.
17:4 But
the
king
of
Assyria
found
treachery
in
Hoshea,
for
he
had
sent
messengers
to
So,
king
of
Egypt,
and
offered
no
tribute
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
invaded
all
the
land
and
came
to
Samaria,
and
for
three
years
he
besieged
it.
17:6 In
the
ninth
year
of
Hoshea,
the
king
of
Assyria
captured
Samaria,
and
he
carried
the
Israelites
away
to
Assyria
and
placed
them
in
Halah,
and
on
the
Habor,
the
river
of
Gozan,
and
in
the
cities
of
the
Medes.
17:7 And
this
occurred
because
the
people
of
Israel
had
sinned
against
the
LORD
their
God,
who
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
customs
of
the
nations
whom
the
LORD
drove
out
before
the
people
of
Israel,
and
in
the
customs
that
the
kings
of
Israel
had
practiced.
17:9 And
the
people
of
Israel
did
secretly
against
the
LORD
their
God
things
that
were
not
right.
They
built
for
themselves
high
places
in
all
their
towns,
from
watchtower
to
fortified
city.
17:10 They
set
up
for
themselves
pillars
and
Asherim
on
every
high
hill
and
under
every
green
tree,
17:11 and
there
they
made
offerings
on
all
the
high
places,
as
the
nations
did
whom
the
LORD
carried
away
before
them.
And
they
did
wicked
things,
provoking
the
LORD
to
anger,
17:12 and
they
served
idols,
of
which
the
LORD
had
said
to
them,
"You
shall
not
do
this."
17:13 Yet
the
LORD
warned
Israel
and
Judah
by
every
prophet
and
every
seer,
saying,
"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."
17:14 But
they
would
not
listen,
but
were
stubborn,
as
their
fathers
had
been,
who
did
not
believe
in
the
LORD
their
God.
17:15 They
despised
his
statutes
and
his
covenant
that
he
made
with
their
fathers
and
the
warnings
that
he
gave
them.
They
went
after
false
idols
and
became
false,
and
they
followed
the
nations
that
were
around
them,
concerning
whom
the
LORD
had
commanded
them
that
they
should
not
do
like
them.
17:16 And
they
abandoned
all
the
commandments
of
the
LORD
their
God,
and
made
for
themselves
metal
images
of
two
calves;
and
they
made
an
Asherah
and
worshiped
all
the
host
of
heaven
and
served
Baal.
17:17 And
they
burned
their
sons
and
their
daughters
as
offerings
and
used
divination
and
omens
and
sold
themselves
to
do
evil
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD,
provoking
him
to
anger.
17:18 Therefore
the
LORD
was
very
angry
with
Israel
and
removed
them
out
of
his
sight.
None
was
left
but
the
tribe
of
Judah
only.
17:19 Judah
also
did
not
keep
the
commandments
of
the
LORD
their
God,
but
walked
in
the
customs
that
Israel
had
introduced.
17:20 And
the
LORD
rejected
all
the
descendants
of
Israel
and
afflicted
them
and
gave
them
into
the
hand
of
plunderers,
until
he
had
cast
them
out
of
his
sight.
17:21 When
he
had
torn
Israel
from
the
house
of
David,
they
made
Jeroboam
the
son
of
Nebat
king.
And
Jeroboam
drove
Israel
from
following
the
LORD
and
made
them
commit
great
sin.
17:22 The
people
of
Israel
walked
in
all
the
sins
that
Jeroboam
did.
They
did
not
depart
from
them,
17:23 until
the
LORD
removed
Israel
out
of
his
sight,
as
he
had
spoken
by
all
his
servants
the
prophets.
So
Israel
was
exiled
from
their
own
land
to
Assyria
until
this
day.
17:24 And
the
king
of
Assyria
brought
people
from
Babylon,
Cuthah,
Avva,
Hamath,
and
Sepharvaim,
and
placed
them
in
the
cities
of
Samaria
instead
of
the
people
of
Israel.
And
they
took
possession
of
Samaria
and
lived
in
its
cities.
17:25 And
at
the
beginning
of
their
dwelling
there,
they
did
not
fear
the
LORD.
Therefore
the
LORD
sent
lions
among
them,
which
killed
some
of
them.
17:26 So
the
king
of
Assyria
was
told,
"The
nations
that
you
have
carried
away
and
placed
in
the
cities
of
Samaria
do
not
know
the
law
of
the
god
of
the
land.
Therefore
he
has
sent
lions
among
them,
and
behold,
they
are
killing
them,
because
they
do
not
know
the
law
of
the
god
of
the
land."
17:27 Then
the
king
of
Assyria
commanded,
"Send
there
one
of
the
priests
whom
you
carried
away
from
there,
and
let
him
go
and
dwell
there
and
teach
them
the
law
of
the
god
of
the
land."
17:28 So
one
of
the
priests
whom
they
had
carried
away
from
Samaria
came
and
lived
in
Bethel
and
taught
them
how
they
should
fear
the
LORD.
17:29 But
every
nation
still
made
gods
of
its
own
and
put
them
in
the
shrines
of
the
high
places
that
the
Samaritans
had
made,
every
nation
in
the
cities
in
which
they
lived.
17:30 The
men
of
Babylon
made
Succoth-benoth,
the
men
of
Cuth
made
Nergal,
the
men
of
Hamath
made
Ashima,
17:31 and
the
Avvites
made
Nibhaz
and
Tartak;
and
the
Sepharvites
burned
their
children
in
the
fire
to
Adrammelech
and
Anammelech,
the
gods
of
Sepharvaim.
17:32 They
also
feared
the
LORD
and
appointed
from
among
themselves
all
sorts
of
people
as
priests
of
the
high
places,
who
sacrificed
for
them
in
the
shrines
of
the
high
places.
17:33 So
they
feared
the
LORD
but
also
served
their
own
gods,
after
the
manner
of
the
nations
from
among
whom
they
had
been
carried
away.
17:34 To
this
day
they
do
according
to
the
former
manner.
They
do
not
fear
the
LORD,
and
they
do
not
follow
the
statutes
or
the
rules
or
the
law
or
the
commandment
that
the
LORD
commanded
the
children
of
Jacob,
whom
he
named
Israel.
17:35 The
LORD
made
a
covenant
with
them
and
commanded
them,
"You
shall
not
fear
other
gods
or
bow
yourselves
to
them
or
serve
them
or
sacrifice
to
them,
17:36 but
you
shall
fear
the
LORD,
who
brought
you
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
with
great
power
and
with
an
outstretched
arm.
You
shall
bow
yourselves
to
him,
and
to
him
you
shall
sacrifice.
17:37 And
the
statutes
and
the
rules
and
the
law
and
the
commandment
that
he
wrote
for
you,
you
shall
always
be
careful
to
do.
You
shall
not
fear
other
gods,
17:38 and
you
shall
not
forget
the
covenant
that
I
have
made
with
you.
You
shall
not
fear
other
gods,
17:39 but
you
shall
fear
the
LORD
your
God,
and
he
will
deliver
you
out
of
the
hand
of
all
your
enemies."
17:40 However,
they
would
not
listen,
but
they
did
according
to
their
former
manner.
17:41 So
these
nations
feared
the
LORD
and
also
served
their
carved
images.
Their
children
did
likewise,
and
their
children's
children--as
their
fathers
did,
so
they
do
to
this
day.