2 Kings 17:7-23

The sins for which Israel was carried into captivity (Not in Chronicles)

7. Forso it was that R.V. And it was so because. A better form of introduction to this account of the causes of the captivity. These are recited under three heads. First, on entering Canaan Israel adopted the idol worship of the people of the land, and would not listen to the warnings of God's prophets. Secondly, the ten tribes made the molten calves, and thirdly, they adopted the worship of Baal and Moloch and other idolatries from the more distant people, and indulged in all the practices of divination and enchantment which were attendant on these heathen forms of worship.

which had[R.V. omits had brought them up This omission makes the clause refer, as it does in the Hebrew, exactly to the same time as -whom the Lord cast out" in the following verse.