THE PROPHETS WERE PERSECUTED FOR PREACHING TORAH

2 Kings 17:13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

2 Kings 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in the LORD their God.

2 Kings 17:15 And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity and became vain and went after the heathen that were round about them concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.