Why Israel Fell

This disaster happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt(A) and because they had worshiped[a] other gods.(B) They had lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites(C) and the customs the kings of Israel had introduced.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:7 Lit feared

Israel Exiled Because of Sin

All this took place because the Israelites had sinned(A) against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt(B) from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods and followed the practices of the nations(C) the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

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