But he walked in the way of the kings of Yisrael, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom YY cast out from before the children of Yisrael.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Kenaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Achav, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
And king Ahaz went to Dammesek to meet Tiglathpileser king of Ashur, and saw an altar that was at Dammesek: and king Ahaz sent to UriYAH the kohen the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim: behold thy elohim, O Yisrael, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Thou shalt not bow down to their elohim, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am YY your Elohim.