12:017:009 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.
12:017:010 And they set them up images and groves
in every high hill, and
under
every green tree:
12:017:011 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:
12:017:012 For they served idols, whereof the lord
had said unto them, Ye
shall
not do this thing.
12:017:013 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.
12:017:014 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.
12:017:015 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.
12:017:016 And they left all the commandments of the
lord their God, and
made
them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove,
and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
12:017:017 And they caused their sons and their daughters
to pass through
the
fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold
themselves
to do evil in the sight of the lord, to provoke
him
to
anger.
12:017:018 Therefore the lord was very angry
with Israel, and removed
them
out of his sight: there was none left but the
tribe of
Judah
only.
12:017:019 Also Judah kept not the commandments of
the lord their God,
but
walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
12:017:020 And the lord rejected all the seed
of Israel, and afflicted
them,
and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until
he
had
cast them out of his sight.
12:017:021 For he rent Israel from the house of David;
and they made
Jeroboam
the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel
from
following
the lord, and made them sin a great sin.


