And Rehoboam forsook the counsel of [the] eld [or old] men, which they gave to him, and took young men, that were nourished with him, and stood nigh [to] him;
Forsooth it was done, when the sons of Israel had sinned before their Lord God, that led them out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, they worship-ped alien gods;
And in the prophets of Jerusalem I saw, likeness, adultery, and the way of leasing; and they comforted the hands of the worst men, that each man should not convert from his malice; all they be made as Sodom to me, and all the dwellers thereof be made as Gomorrah.
And the Lord said to me, in the days of Josiah, the king, Whether thou hast seen what thing the adversary, Israel, hath done? She went [away] to herself on each high hill, and under each tree full of boughs, and did fornication there.
And she gave her fornications on them, on all the chosen sons of Assyrians; and in all on which she was wild, she was defouled in the uncleanness of them.
My people asked in his tree, and the staff thereof told to it; for the spirit of fornication deceived them, and they did fornication, going away from their God.