² but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baals.

¹⁷ You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

¹¹ The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;

¹⁷ For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, And they will no more be mentioned by their name.

¹³ I will visit on her the days of the Baals, To which she burned incense, When she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, And went after her lovers, And forgot me," says Yahweh.

³ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

⁴ He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

⁶ He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

²⁶ They brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

²⁷ They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.

²⁸ Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

³¹ It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

³² He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

³³ Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

¹³ They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

⁴ "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.