THE KINGS OF ISRAEL (10 northern tribes)

CHAPTER 17

JEROBOAM: Brought false worship into the new northern kingdom. He ordered two golden calves for worship and the erection of Ashteroth poles and Baal hill alters.

Of the seventeen future kings of the northern kingdom of Israel, only one king stood out for Jehovah and true worship. His name was JEHU and during his time of influence and rule, Jezebel the wife of king Ahab was killed, who kept 450 priests to Baal and 400 to Ashtorah.

The Baal temple was turned into a public toilet and 80 of its priests were executed.
By the time we come to Hoshea, the last king of the ten tribe northern kingdom of Israel, the country was ready to be cast off by its maker as they had broken from him totally.
They would not listen, as they were a stiff necked stuborn race and followed the neighbouring nations in their revelling in false and morally corupt worship. They even went as far as to sacrifice their own sons and daughters in the fire to the god Molech, something totally abhorent to Jehovah.
No more need be said.
This is why Jehovah finally lost patience with them and consented for them to be invaded and exiled into the lands of the Medes, north east of Babylon by the newly powerful emperor Tiglath- Pileser of Assyria, who removed them from the Holy land and gave their land to others, later called the hated Samaritans.