![]() If you return to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. Serve the Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you. Come to his sanctuary (the Temple), which he has consecrated forever. Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were submit to the Lord. Do not be like your parents and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the Lord, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see. “People of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel (Jacob), that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. ![]() “Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah and also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, inviting them to come to the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel…. 758-687 BC) sent a letter to the remnants of the northern kingdom inviting them to come to Jerusalem in the south and to worship the Lord with their fellow Jews in hopes they would return to the Lord God Jehovah: They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.” II Kings 18:11-12Īfter the first Assyrian exile (c. This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant-all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. “The king of Assyria (Tiglath Pileser III) deported Israel to Assyria (in what is now northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey) and settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in towns of the Medes. The Exile of the 10 tribes began in c.740 BC and continued until c.722 BC. Jews from there were taken into Exile by the Assyrians. Northern Israel was called Ephraim, the most numerous of the 10 tribes who lived in the north. 2300 BC to c.2100 BC) with figure of the popular Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar (AKA Inanna/Asherah/Astarte), armed, wearing a horned crown and trampling a leashed lion. 3300 to c.1200 BC) through classical antiquity (8th century BC until the 6th century AD.) Akkadian seal (Empire was c. They forsook the One True God, Yahweh, Who had established their country and they whored after the pagan gods other countries had.Īstarte is the Hellenized form of the Middle Eastern goddess Astoreth (Northwest Semitic), a form of Ishtar (East Semitic), worshipped from the Bronze Age (c. There were many “fake gods” in their society whom they worshipped as “gods”-Astarte/Asherah/Ishtar, Baal, Dagon, sun gods, moon gods. ![]() The Jews as a nation had abandoned the God Who had delivered them from Egypt and Who had established their land as a ONE GOD Godly people. (Judges 21:25.) They had abolished TRUTH. The ancient Jews, instead of seeking God’s Word and His will, “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” They had become a “you have your opinion and I have my opinion” nation.
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