Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the sons of Ammon;
And the sons of Israel secretly did the things that were not right against Jehovah their God, and built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city,
And he set a graven image of the Asherah he had made in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land! Is not Jehovah in Zion? Or is not her king in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?
And now they sin more and more, and they have made themselves a molten image of their silver, idols according to their understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Men who sacrifice, let them kiss calves.
And I shall destroy your high places and cut down your altars, and shall put your dead bodies on the carcasses of your idols. And My soul shall loathe you.
then you shall dispossess all the ones living in the land from before you, and destroy all their engraved images; yea, you shall destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
Destroying you shall destroy all the places where the nations which you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.
Cursed is the man who makes a carved or molten image, a disgusting thing to Jehovah, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and who sets it up in a secret place! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen!
They made Me jealous with a no-god; they made Me angry by their vanities; and I shall make them jealous by a no-people; by a foolish nation I shall make them angry.
And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah again, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook Jehovah and did not serve Him.
But they also did not listen to their judges, but fornicated after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They quickly turned aside out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah. They did not do so.
And the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,
And he himself turned back from the carved images at Gilgal, and said, I have a secret word for you, O king. And he said, Be silent! And all those standing beside him went out from him.