Israel’s Tragic End

A truly sorrowful review of Israel’s experience from the establishment of the kingdom until its tragic end is given in the second book of Kings:AGP 123.2

“So it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt….

“And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God….

“And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: … for they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing….

“Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.

“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….

“And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.” 2 Kings 17:7-17.