^{16 Ref} And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

^{17 Ref} And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

^{18 Ref} So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.

^{19 Ref} (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

^{20 Ref} So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)