2 Kings 17:8, 12, 34

and followed the practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, “You shall not do this.”

To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the LORD nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel.