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 <div class="p">1In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years. 2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel who preceded him.</div><div class="p"> 3Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up to attack Hoshea, who had been Shalmaneser&#8217;s vassal and had paid him tribute. 4But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So#17:4 So is probably an abbreviation for Osorkon. king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison. 5The king of Assyria invaded the entire land, marched against Samaria and laid siege to it for three years. 6In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes.</div><div class="s1">Israel Exiled Because of Sin</div><div class="p"> 7All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods 8and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced. 9The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city they built themselves high places in all their towns. 10They set up sacred stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every spreading tree. 11At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord&#8217;s anger. 12They worshiped idols, though the Lord had said, &#8220;You shall not do this.&#8221;#17:12 Exodus 20:4,5 13The Lord warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: &#8220;Turn from your evil ways. Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 14But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God. 15They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, &#8220;Do not do as they do.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 16They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal. 17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.</div><div class="p"> 18So the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left, 19and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced. 20Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence.</div><div class="p"> 21When he tore Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the Lord and caused them to commit a great sin. 22The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them 23until the Lord removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.</div>
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 <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1">Repentance to Bring Blessing</div><div class="q1"> # In Hebrew texts 14:1-9 is numbered 14:2-10. 1Return, Israel, to the Lord your God.</div><div class="q2">Your sins have been your downfall!</div><div class="q1"> 2Take words with you</div><div class="q2">and return to the Lord.</div><div class="q1">Say to him:</div><div class="q2">&#8220;Forgive all our sins</div><div class="q1">and receive us graciously,</div><div class="q2">that we may offer the fruit of our lips.#14:2 Or offer our lips as sacrifices of bulls</div><div class="q1"> 3Assyria cannot save us;</div><div class="q2">we will not mount warhorses.</div><div class="q1">We will never again say &#8216;Our gods&#8217;</div><div class="q2">to what our own hands have made,</div><div class="q2">for in you the fatherless find compassion.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 4&#8220;I will heal their waywardness</div><div class="q2">and love them freely,</div><div class="q2">for my anger has turned away from them.</div><div class="q1"> 5I will be like the dew to Israel;</div><div class="q2">he will blossom like a lily.</div><div class="q1">Like a cedar of Lebanon</div><div class="q2">he will send down his roots;</div><div class="q2"> 6his young shoots will grow.</div><div class="q1">His splendor will be like an olive tree,</div><div class="q2">his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.</div><div class="q1"> 7People will dwell again in his shade;</div><div class="q2">they will flourish like the grain,</div><div class="q1">they will blossom like the vine&#8212;</div><div class="q2">Israel&#8217;s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.</div><div class="q1"> 8Ephraim, what more have I#14:8 Or Hebrew; Septuagint What more has Ephraim to do with idols?</div><div class="q2">I will answer him and care for him.</div><div class="q1">I am like a flourishing juniper;</div><div class="q2">your fruitfulness comes from me.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9Who is wise? Let them realize these things.</div><div class="q2">Who is discerning? Let them understand.</div><div class="q1">The ways of the Lord are right;</div><div class="q2">the righteous walk in them,</div><div class="q2">but the rebellious stumble in them.</div>
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