^{15 Ref} They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.

^{16 Ref} They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal.

^{17 Ref} They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

^{18 Ref} Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

^{19 Ref} Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

^{20 Ref} Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.