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9 things that were not right against the Lord their God. They built for themselves high places at all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city;
10 on every high hill and under every green tree;
11there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord had carried away before them. They did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger;
12 worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17 go and live there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”
28So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel; he taught them how they should worship the Lord.
29But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived;
30v 24the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the people of Cuth made Nergal, the people of Hamath made Ashima;
31vv 17, 24the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
321 Kings 12.31They also worshiped 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.
33Zeph 1.5So they worshiped the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
34Gen 32.28; 35.10To this day they continue to practice their former customs.
They do not worship the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the ordinances or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.
35Ex 20.5; Judg 6.10The Lord had made a covenant with them and commanded them, “You shall not worship other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,
36Ex 6.6; Deut 10.20but you shall worship 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.
37Deut 5.32The statutes and the ordinances and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to observe. You shall not worship other gods;
38Deut 4.23you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not worship other gods,
39but you shall worship the Lord your God; he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
40They would not listen, however, but continued to practice their former custom.
41 vv 32, 33 So these nations worshiped the Lord but also served their carved images; to this day their children and their children’s children continue to do as their ancestors did.
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