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So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel.
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However, he did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
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Israel Exiled Because of Sin
All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt from under the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They worshiped other gods
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They worshiped idols, though the Lord had said, “You shall not do this.”
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They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves, and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts, and they worshiped Baal.
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When they first lived there, they did not worship the Lord; so he sent lions among them and they killed some of the people.
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So one of the priests who had been exiled from Samaria came to live in Bethel and taught them how to worship the Lord.
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They worshiped the Lord, but they also appointed all sorts of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places.
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They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.
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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.
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When the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: “Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them.
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But the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices.
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You must always be careful to keep the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods.
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Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods.
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Rather, worship the Lord your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.”
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Even while these people were worshiping the Lord, they were serving their idols. To this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their ancestors did.
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But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?
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One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
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He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
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He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them.
