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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Kings 17: 14 notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God;
2_Kings 17: 15 and they rejected His statutes, and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies wherewith He testified against them; and they went after things of nought, and became nought, and after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them;
2_Kings 17: 16 and they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal;
2_Kings 17: 17 and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and gave themselves over to do that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him;
2_Kings 17: 18 that the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2_Kings 17: 19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they practised.
2_Kings 17: 20 And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until He had cast them out of His sight.
2_Kings 17: 21 For He rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king; and Jeroboam drew Israel away from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
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