They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not YY in TZiyon? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
But where are thy elohim that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy elohim, O Yhudah.
And the king of Ashur found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Ashur, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Ashur shut him up, and bound him in prison.
And it came to pass, when all Yisrael heard that Yarovam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Yisrael: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Yhudah only.
For the children of Yisrael shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
And YY said unto Shmuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.