2╦╔ 17:1 ╔N THE TWELFTH YEAR OF ┴HAZ KING OF ╩UDAH BEGAN ╚OSHEA THE SON OF ┼LAH TO REIGN IN ╙AMARIA OVER ╔SRAEL NINE YEARS.
2╦╔ 17:2 ┴ND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE ╠╧╥─, BUT NOT AS THE KINGS OF ╔SRAEL THAT WERE BEFORE HIM.
2╦╔ 17:3 ┴GAINST HIM CAME UP ╙HALMANESER KING OF ┴SSYRIA; AND ╚OSHEA BECAME HIS SERVANT, AND GAVE HIM PRESENTS.
2╦╔ 17:4 ┴ND THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA FOUND CONSPIRACY IN ╚OSHEA: FOR HE HAD SENT MESSENGERS TO ╙O KING OF ┼GYPT, AND BROUGHT NO PRESENT TO THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, AS HE HAD DONE YEAR BY YEAR: THEREFORE THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA SHUT HIM UP, AND BOUND HIM IN PRISON.
2╦╔ 17:5 ╘HEN THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA CAME UP THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, AND WENT UP TO ╙AMARIA, AND BESIEGED IT THREE YEARS.
2╦╔ 17:6 ╔N THE NINTH YEAR OF ╚OSHEA THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA TOOK ╙AMARIA, AND CARRIED ╔SRAEL AWAY INTO ┴SSYRIA, AND PLACED THEM IN ╚ALAH AND IN ╚ABOR BY THE RIVER OF ╟OZAN, AND IN THE CITIES OF THE ═EDES.
2╦╔ 17:7 ╞OR SO IT WAS, THAT THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL HAD SINNED AGAINST THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD, WHICH HAD BROUGHT THEM UP OUT OF THE LAND OF ┼GYPT, FROM UNDER THE HAND OF ╨HARAOH KING OF ┼GYPT, AND HAD FEARED OTHER GODS,
2╦╔ 17:8 ┴ND WALKED IN THE STATUTES OF THE HEATHEN, WHOM THE ╠╧╥─ CAST OUT FROM BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL, AND OF THE KINGS OF ╔SRAEL, WHICH THEY HAD MADE.
2╦╔ 17:9 ┴ND THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL DID SECRETLY THOSE THINGS THAT WERE NOT RIGHT AGAINST THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD, AND THEY BUILT THEM HIGH PLACES IN ALL THEIR CITIES, FROM THE TOWER OF THE WATCHMEN TO THE FENCED CITY.
2╦╔ 17:10 ┴ND THEY SET THEM UP IMAGES AND GROVES IN EVERY HIGH HILL, AND UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE:
2╦╔ 17:11 ┴ND THERE THEY BURNT INCENSE IN ALL THE HIGH PLACES, AS DID THE HEATHEN WHOM THE ╠╧╥─ CARRIED AWAY BEFORE THEM; AND WROUGHT WICKED THINGS TO PROVOKE THE ╠╧╥─ TO ANGER:
2╦╔ 17:12 ╞OR THEY SERVED IDOLS, WHEREOF THE ╠╧╥─ HAD SAID UNTO THEM, ┘E SHALL NOT DO THIS THING.
2╦╔ 17:13 ┘ET THE ╠╧╥─ TESTIFIED AGAINST ╔SRAEL, AND AGAINST ╩UDAH, BY ALL THE PROPHETS, AND BY ALL THE SEERS, SAYING, ╘URN YE FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS AND MY STATUTES, ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW WHICH ╔ COMMANDED YOUR FATHERS, AND WHICH ╔ SENT TO YOU BY MY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS.
2╦╔ 17:14 ╬OTWITHSTANDING THEY WOULD NOT HEAR, BUT HARDENED THEIR NECKS, LIKE TO THE NECK OF THEIR FATHERS, THAT DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD.
2╦╔ 17:15 ┴ND 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 ╠╧╥─ HAD CHARGED THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD NOT DO LIKE THEM.
2╦╔ 17:16 ┴ND THEY LEFT ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD, AND MADE THEM MOLTEN IMAGES, EVEN TWO CALVES, AND MADE A GROVE, AND WORSHIPPED ALL THE HOST OF HEAVEN, AND SERVED ┬AAL.
2╦╔ 17:17 ┴ND 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 ╠╧╥─, TO PROVOKE HIM TO ANGER.
2╦╔ 17:18 ╘HEREFORE THE ╠╧╥─ WAS VERY ANGRY WITH ╔SRAEL, AND REMOVED THEM OUT OF HIS SIGHT: THERE WAS NONE LEFT BUT THE TRIBE OF ╩UDAH ONLY.
2╦╔ 17:19 ┴LSO ╩UDAH KEPT NOT THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE ╠╧╥─ THEIR ╟OD, BUT WALKED IN THE STATUTES OF ╔SRAEL WHICH THEY MADE.
2╦╔ 17:20 ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ REJECTED ALL THE SEED OF ╔SRAEL, AND AFFLICTED THEM, AND DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF SPOILERS, UNTIL HE HAD CAST THEM OUT OF HIS SIGHT.
2╦╔ 17:21 ╞OR HE RENT ╔SRAEL FROM THE HOUSE OF ─AVID; AND THEY MADE ╩EROBOAM THE SON OF ╬EBAT KING: AND ╩EROBOAM DRAVE ╔SRAEL FROM FOLLOWING THE ╠╧╥─, AND MADE THEM SIN A GREAT SIN.
2╦╔ 17:22 ╞OR THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL WALKED IN ALL THE SINS OF ╩EROBOAM WHICH HE DID; THEY DEPARTED NOT FROM THEM;
2╦╔ 17:23 ╒NTIL THE ╠╧╥─ REMOVED ╔SRAEL OUT OF HIS SIGHT, AS HE HAD SAID BY ALL HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS. ╙O WAS ╔SRAEL CARRIED AWAY OUT OF THEIR OWN LAND TO ┴SSYRIA UNTO THIS DAY.
2╦╔ 17:24 ┴ND THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA BROUGHT MEN FROM ┬ABYLON, AND FROM ├UTHAH, AND FROM ┴VA, AND FROM ╚AMATH, AND FROM ╙EPHARVAIM, AND PLACED THEM IN THE CITIES OF ╙AMARIA INSTEAD OF THE CHILDREN OF ╔SRAEL: AND THEY POSSESSED ╙AMARIA, AND DWELT IN THE CITIES THEREOF.
2╦╔ 17:25 ┴ND SO IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF THEIR DWELLING THERE, THAT THEY FEARED NOT THE ╠╧╥─: THEREFORE THE ╠╧╥─ SENT LIONS AMONG THEM, WHICH SLEW SOME OF THEM.
2╦╔ 17:26 ╫HEREFORE THEY SPAKE TO THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA, SAYING, ╘HE NATIONS WHICH THOU HAST REMOVED, AND PLACED IN THE CITIES OF ╙AMARIA, KNOW NOT THE MANNER OF THE ╟OD OF THE LAND: THEREFORE HE HATH SENT LIONS AMONG THEM, AND, BEHOLD, THEY SLAY THEM, BECAUSE THEY KNOW NOT THE MANNER OF THE ╟OD OF THE LAND.
2╦╔ 17:27 ╘HEN THE KING OF ┴SSYRIA COMMANDED, SAYING, ├ARRY 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 ╟OD OF THE LAND.
2╦╔ 17:28 ╘HEN ONE OF THE PRIESTS WHOM THEY HAD CARRIED AWAY FROM ╙AMARIA CAME AND DWELT IN ┬ETHEL, AND TAUGHT THEM HOW THEY SHOULD FEAR THE ╠╧╥─.
2╦╔ 17:29 ╚OWBEIT EVERY NATION MADE GODS OF THEIR OWN, AND PUT THEM IN THE HOUSES OF THE HIGH PLACES WHICH THE ╙AMARITANS HAD MADE, EVERY NATION IN THEIR CITIES WHEREIN THEY DWELT.
2╦╔ 17:30 ┴ND THE MEN OF ┬ABYLON MADE ╙UCCOTHBENOTH, AND THE MEN OF ├UTH MADE ╬ERGAL, AND THE MEN OF ╚AMATH MADE ┴SHIMA,
2╦╔ 17:31 ┴ND THE ┴VITES MADE ╬IBHAZ AND ╘ARTAK, AND THE ╙EPHARVITES BURNT THEIR CHILDREN IN FIRE TO ┴DRAMMELECH AND ┴NAMMELECH, THE GODS OF ╙EPHARVAIM.
2╦╔ 17:32 ╙O THEY FEARED THE ╠╧╥─, 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.
2╦╔ 17:33 ╘HEY FEARED THE ╠╧╥─, AND SERVED THEIR OWN GODS, AFTER THE MANNER OF THE NATIONS WHOM THEY CARRIED AWAY FROM THENCE.
2╦╔ 17:34 ╒NTO THIS DAY THEY DO AFTER THE FORMER MANNERS: THEY FEAR NOT THE ╠╧╥─, NEITHER DO THEY AFTER THEIR STATUTES, OR AFTER THEIR ORDINANCES, OR AFTER THE LAW AND COMMANDMENT WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ╩ACOB, WHOM HE NAMED ╔SRAEL;
2╦╔ 17:35 ╫ITH WHOM THE ╠╧╥─ HAD MADE A COVENANT, AND CHARGED THEM, SAYING, ┘E SHALL NOT FEAR OTHER GODS, NOR BOW YOURSELVES TO THEM, NOR SERVE THEM, NOR SACRIFICE TO THEM:
2╦╔ 17:36 ┬UT THE ╠╧╥─, WHO BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF THE LAND OF ┼GYPT WITH GREAT POWER AND A STRETCHED OUT ARM, HIM SHALL YE FEAR, AND HIM SHALL YE WORSHIP, AND TO HIM SHALL YE DO SACRIFICE.
2╦╔ 17:37 ┴ND 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.
2╦╔ 17:38 ┴ND THE COVENANT THAT ╔ HAVE MADE WITH YOU YE SHALL NOT FORGET; NEITHER SHALL YE FEAR OTHER GODS.
2╦╔ 17:39 ┬UT THE ╠╧╥─ YOUR ╟OD YE SHALL FEAR; AND HE SHALL DELIVER YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL YOUR ENEMIES.
2╦╔ 17:40 ╚OWBEIT THEY DID NOT HEARKEN, BUT THEY DID AFTER THEIR FORMER MANNER.
2╦╔ 17:41 ╙O THESE NATIONS FEARED THE ╠╧╥─, AND SERVED THEIR GRAVEN IMAGES, BOTH THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEIR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN: AS DID THEIR FATHERS, SO DO THEY UNTO THIS DAY.
