In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years. 2Ki 15:30 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him. 2Ch 30:5-112Ki 10:312Ki 13:112Ki 13:22Ki 15:182Ki 15:242Ki 15:92Ki 3:2
¶ Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents. 1 2 Hos 10:142Ki 15:192Ki 15:292Ki 16:7-82Ki 18:312Ki 18:9-162Ki 19:36-372Sa 8:2 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. 3 2Ch 32:112Ki 18:14-152Ki 18:212Ki 24:12Ki 24:202Ki 25:7Ezk 17:13-19Isa 31:1-3
¶ Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. Hos 13:162Ki 18:92Ki 25:1-3Jer 52:4-5
¶ 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. Hos 13:161Ch 5:26Deu 28:642Ki 18:10-11Amo 5:27Deu 28:36Deu 29:27-28Isa 13:17
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, Jos 23:16Exo 20:2Jdg 2:14-17Jer 10:5Neh 9:26Psa 106:35-411Ki 11:42Ch 36:14-16 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. 2Ki 16:3Deu 18:9Lev 18:31Ki 12:281Ki 16:31-331Ki 21:262Ki 16:102Ki 17:19 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. 2Ki 18:8Deu 13:6Deu 27:15Ezk 8:12Hos 12:11Job 31:27 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 4 1Ki 14:23Mic 5:142Ki 16:4Exo 34:13Deu 12:2-3Deu 16:21Isa 57:5Lev 26:1 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: 1Ki 13:12Ch 28:252Ki 21:6Jer 44:17Psa 78:56-58 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Deu 12:4Deu 4:15-19Deu 4:23-25Deu 5:7-9Exo 20:3-5Exo 34:14Lev 26:1 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. 5 1Sa 9:9Jer 35:15Jer 18:11Deu 31:21Neh 9:29-301Ch 29:291Sa 12:7-152Ch 36:15-16 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. Act 7:51Deu 31:272Ch 36:13Deu 1:32Exo 32:9Heb 3:12Heb 3:7-8Isa 48:4 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. Deu 12:30-31Deu 32:21Jer 2:5Rom 1:21-231Ki 16:13Exo 24:6-8Jer 8:9Psa 115:8 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. 1Ki 12:281Ki 14:151Ki 14:231Ki 16:31Deu 4:191Ki 15:131Ki 16:331Ki 22:53 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. 2Ki 21:62Ki 16:3Deu 18:10-12Ezk 23:371Ki 21:20Psa 106:37-38Ezk 20:26Lev 18:21 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. 1Ki 11:131Ki 12:201Ki 11:321Ki 11:36Deu 32:21-26Hos 11:122Ki 23:27Hos 9:3 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 1Ki 14:22-232Ki 16:32Ch 21:112Ch 21:13Ezk 16:51-52Jer 3:8-112Ki 8:182Ki 8:27 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. 2Ki 15:292Ki 13:3Jer 6:301Ch 16:131Sa 15:231Sa 15:261Sa 16:12Ch 28:5-6 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. 1Ki 11:111Ki 11:311Ki 12:28-301Ki 14:16Isa 7:171Ki 12:19-201Ki 14:81Sa 2:17 For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; 2Ki 10:292Ki 10:312Ki 13:112Ki 13:22Ki 13:62Ki 15:92Ki 3:3 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. 2Ki 17:62Ki 17:131Ki 14:162Ki 17:202Ki 18:11-12Amo 5:27Hos 1:4-91Ki 13:2
¶ 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. 2Ki 18:342Ki 17:30-312Ki 19:13Mat 10:51Ki 8:652Ch 33:112Ki 17:62Ki 18:31 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. 2Ki 17:322Ki 17:342Ki 17:411Ki 13:241Ki 20:362Ki 17:282Ki 2:24Dan 6:26 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. 1Sa 10:251Sa 8:92Ki 17:27Amo 8:14 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. 1Ki 12:311Ki 13:22Ch 11:15Jdg 17:13 Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the LORD. 1Ki 12:29-32Isa 29:13Mat 15:14 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. 1Ki 12:31Mic 4:51Ki 13:32Hos 8:5-6Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:3-5Psa 115:4-8Psa 135:15-18 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 2Ki 17:24 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. 2Ki 17:242Ki 17:172Ki 19:37Deu 12:28Deu 12:31Ezr 4:9Lev 18:21 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. 1Ki 12:312Ki 17:291Ki 13:332Ki 23:19Zep 1:51Ki 13:31 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. 6 2Ki 17:41Luk 16:13Mat 6:241Ki 18:21Zep 1:5Hos 10:2 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; Gen 32:28Gen 35:101Ki 18:312Ki 17:252Ki 17:27-282Ki 17:33Isa 48:11Ki 11:31 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: Jdg 6:10Deu 4:23-27Exo 20:4-5Exo 34:12-17Jos 23:16Jos 23:72Ki 17:15Deu 13:1-18 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. Exo 6:6Deu 6:13Exo 9:15Lev 19:32Act 4:30Deu 10:20Deu 12:11-12Deu 12:5-6 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. Deu 12:32Deu 4:44-45Deu 5:31Lev 19:37Neh 9:13-14Deu 31:9Psa 105:44-451Ch 29:19 And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods. Deu 4:23Deu 6:12Deu 8:14-18 But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. 1Sa 12:24Luk 1:74-752Ki 17:36Jer 10:7Luk 1:50Mat 10:28Neh 9:27Isa 8:12-14 Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. 2Ki 17:122Ki 17:342Ki 17:8Deu 4:28Jer 13:23 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. Mat 6:241Ki 18:21Zep 1:52Ki 17:32-33Jos 24:14-20Ezr 4:1-3Rev 3:15-16