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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,

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Deut. 31:16‑17,29• ¹⁶And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
¹⁷And my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them, and they will say in that day, Have not these evils befallen me because my God is not in my midst?
²⁹For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and mischief will befall you at the end of days; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. (Deut. 31:16‑17,29)

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Deut. 32:15‑52• ¹⁵Then Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked--Thou art waxen fat, Thou art grown thick, And thou art covered with fatness;--He gave up +God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
¹⁷They sacrificed unto demons who are not +God; To gods whom they knew not, To new ones, who came newly up, Whom your fathers revered not.
¹⁸Of the Rock that begot thee wast thou unmindful, And thou hast forgotten *God who brought thee forth.
¹⁹And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.
²⁰And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
²¹They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no *God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.
²²For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.
²³I will heap mischiefs upon them; Mine arrows will I spend against them.
²⁴They shall be consumed with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, And with poisonous pestilence; And the teeth of beasts will I send against them, With the poison of what crawleth in the dust.
²⁵From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror--Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
²⁶I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
²⁷If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.
²⁹Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
³⁰How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
³¹For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.
³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
³³Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.
³⁴Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
³⁵Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
³⁶For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left.
³⁷And he shall say, Where are their gods, Their rock in whom they trusted,
³⁸Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.
³⁹See now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand,
⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to the heavens, and say, I live for ever!
⁴¹If I have sharpened my gleaming sword, And my hand take hold of judgment, I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.
⁴²Mine arrows will I make drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; I will make them drunk with the blood of the slain and of the captives, With the head of the princes of the enemy.
⁴³Shout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for his people.
⁴⁴And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea the son of Nun.
⁴⁵And when Moses had ended speaking all these words to all Israel,
⁴⁶he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words that I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to take heed to do, all the words of this law.
⁴⁷For it is no vain word for you, but it is your life, and through this word ye shall prolong your days on the land whereunto ye pass over the Jordan to possess it.
⁴⁸And Jehovah spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
⁴⁹Go up into this mountain Abarim, mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession,
⁵⁰and die on the mountain whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy peoples, as Aaron thy brother died on mount Hor, and was gathered unto his peoples;
⁵¹because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye hallowed me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
⁵²For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel. (Deut. 32:15‑52)

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Josh. 23:16• ¹⁶when ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow yourselves unto them, so that the anger of Jehovah shall be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you. (Josh. 23:16)

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Judg. 2:14‑17• ¹⁴And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about; and they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
¹⁵Whithersoever they went out the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had said, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them; and they were greatly distressed.
¹⁶And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
¹⁷But they did not even hearken to their judges, for they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them; they turned quickly out of the way that their fathers had walked in, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; they did not so. (Judg. 2:14‑17)

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2 Chron. 36:14‑16• ¹⁴All the chiefs of the priests also, and the people, increased their transgressions, according to all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
¹⁵And Jehovah the God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending; because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling-place.
¹⁶But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy. (2 Chron. 36:14‑16)

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Neh. 9:26• ²⁶But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations. (Neh. 9:26)

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Psa. 106:35‑41• ³⁵But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
³⁶And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
³⁸And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
⁴⁰Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them: (Psa. 106:35‑41)

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Ezek. 23:2‑16• ²Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
³And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.
⁴And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
⁵And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,
⁶clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
⁷And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
⁸Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.
⁹Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.
¹⁰These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.
¹¹And her sister Oholibah saw this, and was more corrupt in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.
¹²She lusted after the children of Asshur her neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.
¹³And I saw that she was defiled: both took one way.
¹⁴And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
¹⁵girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, after the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
¹⁶And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. (Ezek. 23:2‑16)

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Hos. 4:1‑3• ¹Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
²Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,--they break out; and blood toucheth blood.
³For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hos. 4:1‑3)

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Hos. 8:5‑14• ⁵Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?
⁶For from Israel is this also:--a workman made it, and it is no God: for the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
⁷For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; should it sprout, it would yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
⁸Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
⁹For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
¹⁰Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.
¹¹Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
¹²I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.
¹³They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
¹⁴For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hos. 8:5‑14)

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2 Kings 16:2• ²Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not what was right in the sight of Jehovah his God, like David his father, (2 Kings 16:2)

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1 Kings 11:4• ⁴And it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father. (1 Kings 11:4)

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1 Kings 15:3• ³And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father. (1 Kings 15:3)

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2 Chron. 36:5• ⁵Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah his God. (2 Chron. 36:5)

which had.

Ex. 20:2• ²I am Jehovah thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. (Ex. 20:2)

and had feared.

2 Kings 17:35• ³⁵And Jehovah had made a covenant with them, and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them; (2 Kings 17:35)

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Jer. 10:5• ⁵They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. (Jer. 10:5)

• Now God Himself recapitulates this long history of Israel which begins in Exodus and ends in our chapter. Not that it is ended for good; it is ended only as that which concerns this people and its kings, viewed as responsible. (“The Divine Recapitulation of the History of Israel: 2 Kings 17:7-41” by H.L. Rossier)

• 2 Kings 17:7-18 God shows what He had done for Israel since, delivering from Egypt, He had introduced them into Canaan (2 Kings 17:7). He then speaks of that which they had done, first of all acting “secretly” against the Lord, walking according to the idolatry of the nations which God had dispossessed before them, and in the statutes that the kings of Israel, beginning with Jeroboam I, had established in founding and maintaining their national religion of the calves of Dan and Bethel. Moreover, they had erected everywhere in their fortified cities, and even to the watchmen’s tower, high places and male and female idols in greater excess than had Judah, which was content to keep the high places, at one time consecrated to the worship of the Lord, turning them into places of idolatrous practices (2 Kings 17:8-13). (“The Divine Recapitulation of the History of Israel: 2 Kings 17:7-41” by H.L. Rossier)

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And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah 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;