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2 Kings 16:18
New International Version (NIV)

He took away the Sabbath canopy that had been built at the temple and removed the royal entryway outside the temple of the LORD, in deference to the king of Assyria.

b. Or the dais of his throne (see Septuagint)
 
2 Kings 17:1
New International Version (NIV)

In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned nine years.
 
2 Kings 17:2 King James Version (KJV)

"And he did that which was evil in the sight of the "Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him."
 
2 Kings 17:3 King James Version (KJV)

"Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents."
 
2 Kings 17:4 (NIV)

But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So 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.
 
[h=1](2 Kings 17:6): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][h=3]Israel Captive[/h]6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
 
[h=1](2 Kings 17:7): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h][h=3]Israel Exiled Because of Sin[/h]7 All 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
 
2 Kings 17:8 (NIV)
and 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.
 
[h=1](2 Kings 17:11): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]11 At 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’s anger.
 
[h=1](2 Kings 17:12): ... New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h]12 They served idols, concerning which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

 
2 Kings 17:13 New International Version (NIV)

"The LORD warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers: "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."
 
2 Kings 17:14 New International Version (NIV)

"But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the LORD their God."
 
2 Kings 17:15
New International Version (NIV)

They 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, “Do not do as they do.”
 
2 Kings 17:16 (NIV)
They 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.
 
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