² But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

¹⁷ Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

¹¹ And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

¹⁷ For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

¹³ And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

³ He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

⁴ And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

⁶ He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

²⁶ And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.

²⁷ The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.

²⁸ So Jehu put an end to the worship of Baal in Israel.

³¹ And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

³² And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.

³³ And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

¹³ And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

⁴ Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.