Hosea 12:14 References
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aEphraim has provoked to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his bbloodguilt on him And bring back his creproach to him.
a 2 Kings 17:7-18
2 Kings 17
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Now athis came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, bwho had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, cand they had feared other gods
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and awalked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs bof the kings of Israel which they had introduced.
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The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from awatchtower to fortified city.
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aThey set for themselves sacred pillars and bAsherim on every high hill and under every green tree,
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and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which the Lord had carried away to exile before them; and they did evil things provoking the Lord.
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Yet the aLord warned Israel and Judah bthrough all His prophets and cevery seer, saying, "dTurn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets."
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However, they did not listen, but astiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.
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aThey rejected His statutes and bHis covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And cthey followed vanity and dbecame vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which the eLord had commanded them not to do like them.
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They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even atwo calves, and bmade an Asherah and cworshiped all the host of heaven and dserved Baal.