2 Kings 17:13-15

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹³ The Lord had warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways and keep my commands and my regulations, according to the entire law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.” ¹⁴ But they did not listen. They made their necks just as stiff as their fathers, who did not trust in the Lord their God.

¹⁵ They rejected his regulations and the covenant which he made with their fathers and the testimony with which he warned them. They followed useless idols, and they became useless themselves. They followed the other nations around them, about whom the Lord had commanded them, “Do not do as they do.”