2 Kings 17:9-11

New Century Version

⁹ secretly sinning against the Lord their God. They built places to worship gods in all their cities, from the watchtower to the strong, walled city. ¹⁰ They put up stone pillars to gods and Asherah idols on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ The Israelites burned incense everywhere gods were worshiped, just as the nations who lived there before them had done, whom the Lord had forced out of the land. The Israelites did wicked things that made the Lord angry.