I was reading in 2 Kings and a phrase caught my attention. It was one of those phrases that didn’t make a lot of sense at first. In trying to figure it out, I looked at some cross references. . The original verse and the cross references painted a not so pretty picture. But before I share that picture with you, it might be good to define what a cross reference is. A cross reference is a notation that points to another passage that contains related words, themes or topics as the verse you are reading. So here is the verse in 2 Kings: “They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.” (2 Ki 17:15) The phrase that caught my attention: “They went after false idols and became false…” In the Bible I ...