2 Kings 17:7-8

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Why Israel Fell

⁷ 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) 8} 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)