The Lord of the Eagles of Babylon

Israel sought security in the worship of idol. They fashioned idols for their high places, which they worshipped while abandoning the lord to their own destruction. The years leading up to this time had been filled with coups and overthrown kings. In first kings, chapter 12, after the split in the kingdom, jeroboam the first set up golden calves at bethel and dan,. proclaiming these to be the gods that had brought israel out of egypt. It was merely the work of a craftsman and no god. But as they have spurned the good, they will be pursued by the enemy, the enemy hearers, presumably the assyrians.