Hoshea’s Reign over Israel
1In the twelfth year of King Ahaz’s reign over Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria for nine years.
2He did evil in the sight of the
3King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.
4The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.
5The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
6In the ninth year of Hoshea’s reign, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the people of Israel to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor (the river of Gozan), and in the cities of the Medes.
A Summary of Israel’s Sinful History
7This happened because the Israelites sinned against the
8they observed the practices of the nations whom the
9The Israelites said things about the
10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the
12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the
13The
14But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the
15They rejected his rules, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the laws he had commanded them to obey. They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to the
16They abandoned all the commandments of the
17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the
18So the
19Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the
20So the
21He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the
22The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them.
23Finally the
The King of Assyria Populates Israel with Foreigners
24The king of Assyria brought foreigners from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
25When they first moved in, they did not worship the
26The king of Assyria was told, “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 because they do not know the requirements of the God of the land.”
27So the king of Assyria ordered, “Take back one of the priests whom you deported from there. He must settle there and teach them the requirements of the God of the land.”
28So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel. He taught them how to worship the
29But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.
30The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the people from Cuth made Nergal, the people from Hamath made Ashima,
31the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32At the same time they worshiped the
33They were worshiping the
34To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the
35The
36Instead you must worship the
37You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.
38You must never forget the agreement I made with you, and you must not worship other gods.
39Instead you must worship the
40But they pay no attention; instead they observe their earlier practices.
41These nations are worshiping the
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