7And it came to pass that the sons of Israel sinned against the LORD their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they feared other gods.8And they walked in the statutes of the nations which the LORD had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel which they had made.9And the sons of Israel did secretly things which were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.10And they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah upon every high hill and under every luxuriant tree.11And they offered there in all the high places like the nation which the LORD had removed from before them, and they did evil things to provoke the LORD.12And they served the idols which the LORD had said to them, "You shall not make this thing."13And the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah by the hand of all his prophets and every seer, saying, Return from your bad way and keep my commandment and my statute according to all the instruction which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.14And they did not hear, and they hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who were not faithful in the LORD their God.15And they rejected his statute and his covenant which he had cut with their fathers, and his testimony which he had testified among them; and they walked after the vanity and became vain, and after the nations which were around them, which the LORD had commanded them not to do like them.16And they forsook all the commandment of the LORD their God, and made for themselves two calves of liquid metal, and made an Asherah, and bowed down to all the army of heaven, and served the Baal.17And they passed their sons and their daughters through the fire, and they practiced divination and divined, and they sold themselves to do the bad in the eyes of the LORD, to provoke him.18And the LORD became very angry with Israel and removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah by itself alone.19Also Judah did not keep the commandment of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.20And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers until he had thrown them from his presence.21For Israel had torn away from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel away and banished them from following the LORD, and caused them to sin a great sin.22And the sons of Israel walked in all the sin of Jeroboam which he had made; they did not turn aside from it.23Until the LORD removed Israel from his presence, just as he had spoken by the hand of all his servants the prophets; and he exiled Israel from his land to Assyria until this day.