2 Kings 17:9-11

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⁹ The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God, and those things were wrong!

The Israelites built high places in all their cities—from the smallest town to the largest city. ¹⁰ They put up memorial stones and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ They burned incense there in all those places for worship.^[a] They did these things like the nations that the Lord forced out of the land before them. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord angry.