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15 They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he made[a] with their ancestors,[b] and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and went after all the nations which were all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they did. 16 They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal. 17 They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:15 Literally “cut”
  2. 2 Kings 17:15 Or “fathers”