...7. * vv. 11, 12. * w. 14—19. « 2 Kings xvii. 7, 8. 7 v. 12. JUDGMENT OF ISRAELITE HISTORIANS. 71 never ceased to warn them by his servants the prophets;...commandments of Yahweh and walked after the ordinances of Israel."5 A dark picture in truth ! Nor does the Chronicler lighten its colours. On the contrary, his...

...(ie the idols) — they came to 1 Judges ii. 7. 2 vv. n, 12. * 2 Kings xvii. 7, 8. 6 v. 14. nought?* "all the commandments of Yahweh, their god, they broke,...Asherah and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal,"2 and offered their sons and daughters to Molech.3 In Judah things were no better, for this tribe...

...despised all his commandments, and "following after nothings — (ie the idols) — they came to nought ;m "all the commandments of Yahweh, their god, they broke,...they made themselves two molten calves, and made an Ashérah and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal,"3 and offered their sons and daughters...

...burned incense as did the heathen... for they served idols... and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an asherah and worshipped all the host of heaven and served Baal.' 2 K. xvii. 7 ff. We cannot set this evidence aside on the ground that it merely gives us the...

...forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two ralvi-s, ight not eat bread with the Hebrews ; for that is an abominatio serve« 1 Baal. (17) And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the lire, and used...

...And they forsook all the commandments of the LORD their God, and mado them molten images, even two pt ? Baal. 17 And they caused their sous and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination...

...they left all the commandments of the Lord, their God, and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination,...

...they left all the commandments of the Lord, their God, and made for themselves molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination,...

...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. 15, 16) ? This shows that "the arrangements of the cultus," which a post-Rehoboam...

...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. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination...