2 Kings 17:8

and walked in the statutes of the heathen The book of Judges is full of instances of the way in which the people again and again fell away to the practices of the Canaanites (cf. Judges 2:11-13).

and of the kings of Israel, which they had[R.V. omits had made i.e. In the statutes of the kings of Israel. Such are the ordinances of Jeroboam the son of Nebat about the calves in Dan and Bethel, and the worship of Baal, which Ahab and Jezebel introduced.