{"id":4111,"date":"2015-09-28T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4111"},"modified":"2015-09-28T07:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T11:06:15","slug":"yet-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4111","title":{"rendered":"Yet served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put\u00a0<em>them<\/em>\u00a0in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made,\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0nation in the cities where they dwelt.<\/em><sup><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/sup><em>The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,\u00a0and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.\u00a0<\/em><sup><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/sup><em>So they feared the\u00a0Lord, and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.\u00a0They feared the\u00a0Lord, yet served their own gods\u2014according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away. 2 Kings 17:29-33<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;feared&#8221; the Lord, yet served their own gods!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put\u00a0them\u00a0in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made,\u00a0every\u00a0nation in the cities where they dwelt.\u00a0The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,\u00a0and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yet served&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}