⁸ They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. ^(A)They have made for themselves a molten calf and have worshiped it and ^(B)have sacrificed to it and said, ‘^[a](C)These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

¹⁵ lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and ^(A)sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(B)invite you ^[a]to eat of his sacrifice,

^7 (A)And they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the ^[a]goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a perpetual statute to them throughout their generations.”’

² Indeed ^(A)they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

² “^(A)If there is found in your midst, in any of your gates of the towns which Yahweh your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, by trespassing against His covenant, ³ and has gone and ^(B)served other gods and worshiped them, ^(C)or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, ^(D)which I have not commanded,

⁵ then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and ^(A)you shall stone them, and they will die.

⁴⁰ Then Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; do not let one of them escape.” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to ^(A)the brook Kishon, ^(B)and slaughtered them there.

²⁵ Now it happened that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the ^[a](A)guard and to the royal officers, “^(B)Come in, strike them down; let none come out.” And they struck them down with the edge of the sword; and the ^[b]guard and the royal officers threw them out and went to the ^[c]inner room of the house of Baal.