2 Raja-raja 17:15

Orang Israel telah menolak hukum TUHAN dan meninggalkan ikatan perjanjian yang sudah dibuat-Nya dengan nenek moyang mereka. Karena mereka menyembah dewa-dewa yang tidak berguna, mereka pun menjadi manusia yang sia-sia. Israel mengikuti cara hidup bangsa-bangsa di sekeliling mereka, padahal TUHAN sudah memerintahkan agar jangan melakukannya.

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.