Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_12 19:17
LORD, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_12 19:18
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands-- wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_12 17:5-11
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Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
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In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah and by the Habor, Gozan's river, and in the cities of the Medes.
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[This disaster] happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt and because they had worshiped other gods.
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They had lived according to the customs of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites and the customs the kings of Israel had introduced.
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The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the LORD their God. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.
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They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.
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They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the LORD.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_14 32:13
" 'Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have any of the national gods of the lands been able to deliver their land from my power?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_14 32:14
Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers utterly destroyed was able to deliver his people from my power, that your God should be able to do the same for you?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_23 10:8-11
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For he says: Aren't all my commanders kings?
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Isn't Calno like Carchemish? Isn't Hamath like Arpad? Isn't Samaria like Damascus?
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As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
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and as I did to Samaria and its idols will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?
