Merciful Warnings to Have Jesus as the Only Place, Priest, & Prescriber of Worship

What should we take away from this summary of the fall—and ongoing apostasy—of the residents of the northern half of the land? 2Kings 17 looks forward to the first serial reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these forty-one verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the Lord continues to mercifully warn and urge the residents of the land to worship Him only in the way that He has commanded.