2 Kings 17:9-12

New King James Version

⁹ Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves ^[a]high places in all their cities, ^(A)from watchtower to fortified city. ^10 (B)They set up for themselves sacred pillars and ^(C)wooden images^{[b] (D)}on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger, ¹² for they served idols, ^(E)of which the Lord had said to them, ^(F)“You shall not do this thing.”