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“Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.”
— 2 Kings 15:16
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“And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.”
— 2 Kings 15:18
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“And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?”
— 2 Kings 15:21
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“And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.”
— 2 Kings 15:24
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“And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.”
— 2 Kings 15:26
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“And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.”
— 2 Kings 15:28
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“And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.”
— 2 Kings 15:31
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“And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.”
— 2 Kings 15:34
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“Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?”
— 2 Kings 15:36
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“But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.”
— 2 Kings 16:3
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“And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.”
— 2 Kings 16:10
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“And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.”
— 2 Kings 16:11
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“And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.”
— 2 Kings 16:13
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“And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.”
— 2 Kings 16:14
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“Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.”
— 2 Kings 16:16
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“And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.”
— 2 Kings 16:17
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“And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the Lord for the king of Assyria.”
— 2 Kings 16:18
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“Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?”
— 2 Kings 16:19
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“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 17:2
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:8
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:9
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“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:”
— 2 Kings 17:11
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“For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.”
— 2 Kings 17:12
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:13
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:14
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:15
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“Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.”
— 2 Kings 17:19
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“For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;”
— 2 Kings 17:22
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:23
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:26
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:27
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:28
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:29
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“They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.”
— 2 Kings 17:33
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“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;”
— 2 Kings 17:34
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:36
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:37
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“And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.”
— 2 Kings 17:38
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“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.”
— 2 Kings 17:41
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“And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.”
— 2 Kings 18:3
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“He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.”
— 2 Kings 18:4
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“He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.”
— 2 Kings 18:5
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“For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.”
— 2 Kings 18:6
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“Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.”
— 2 Kings 18:12
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“And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.”
— 2 Kings 18:14
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“At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.”
— 2 Kings 18:16
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“And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.”
— 2 Kings 18:17
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“And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.”
— 2 Kings 18:18
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“And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?”
— 2 Kings 18:19
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“Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.”
— 2 Kings 18:21