7And it came about that the sons of Israel sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt out from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and they feared other gods.8They walked in the statutes of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel and of the kings of Israel who made them.9And the sons of Israel committed things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from watchtowers of the keepers to the fortified city.10They set up pillars and Asherah poles for themselves on every high hill and under every lush tree.11And they offered incense there in all the high places like the nations whom the LORD had exiled from before them, and they did evil things to provoke the LORD.12They served the idols about which the LORD had said to them, "Do not do this thing."13The LORD testified against Israel and Judah by all the prophets and seers, saying, "Return from your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, according to all the Torah that I commanded your fathers and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets."14They did not hear and stiffened their neck like the neck of their fathers who did not believe in the LORD their God.15They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies that he testified against them. They followed Habel, made Habel for themselves, and followed the nations around them, about which the LORD had commanded them, "You shall not do as they do."16And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molten image of two calves, made an Asherah, bowed down to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal.17They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, practiced divinations and augury, and devoted themselves to doing evil in the eyes of the LORD to provoke him.18And the LORD was exceedingly angry with Israel and removed them from His presence; nothing remained except the tribe of Judah alone.19Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, and they walked in the statutes of the nations that they made.20And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers until He had cast them from His presence.21For Israel was torn away from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam thrust Israel away from the LORD and caused them to sin a great sin.22And the sons of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam that he did; they did not turn aside from them.23Until the LORD removed Israel from his face, as he spoke by the hand of all his servants the prophets. And he exiled Israel from his land to Assyria until this day.