2 Kings 17:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² they served idols, of which the Lord had said to them, ‘You shall not do this.’ ¹³ Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, ‘Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law that I commanded your ancestors and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.’ ¹⁴ They would not listen but were stubborn, as their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.