2 Kings 17:7-12 ▼

7 And it comes to pass, because the sons of Israel have sinned against their God YHWH—who brings them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt—and fear other gods,

8 and walk in the statutes of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, and of the kings of Israel that they made;

9 and the sons of Israel covertly do things that [are] not right against their God YHWH, and build high places for themselves in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers to the fortified city,

10 and set up standing-pillars and Asherim for themselves on every high height, and under every green tree,

11 and make incense there in all high places, like the nations that YHWH removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke YHWH,

12 and serve the idols, of which YHWH said to them, “You do not do this thing.”