25 But they ^pbroke faith with the God of their fathers, and ^qwhored after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.

A Genealogy of the Returned Exiles

1 ^cSo all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was ^dtaken into exile in Babylon because of their ^ebreach of faith.

2 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, ^wShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

Uzziah’s Pride and Punishment

16 But ^qwhen he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

19 For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully¹ and had been very ^qunfaithful to the Lord.

6 For our fathers have been unfaithful and have ^cdone what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and ^dturned their backs.

7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the Lord God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.

19 And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.¹

14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, ^cfollowing all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.