2 Kings 13:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ Then Jehoahaz prayed to the Lord, and the Lord, seeing how harshly the king of Syria was oppressing the Israelites, answered his prayer. ⁵ The Lord sent Israel a leader, who freed them from the Syrians, and so the Israelites lived in peace, as before. ⁶ But they still did not give up the sins into which King Jeroboam had led Israel, but kept on^[a] committing them; and the image of the goddess Asherah remained in Samaria.