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2 Kings · read by David Shirley
40 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
2 Kings 17
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In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other godsRead from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They served idols, although the LORD had told them, "You shall not do this thing."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, "Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #03
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When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Then the king of Assyria commanded: "Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land."Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
2 Kings 21
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And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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"Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
2 Kings 25
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On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #03
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Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03
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Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.Read from ESV · Progress of Redemption #03
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There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.Read from NASB1995 · Progress of Redemption #03