16. They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made molten images for themselves, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.
17. They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
18. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
19. Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
20. The Lord rejected all the offspring of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of raiders, until he had cast them out of his sight.
21. For he tore Israel from David’s house; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.
22. The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn’t depart from them