¹² and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

⁴⁶ And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;

² And Asa doth that which is good, and that which is right, in the eyes of Jehovah his God,

³ and turneth aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaketh the standing-pillars, and cutteth down the shrines,

⁴ and saith to Judah to seek Jehovah, God of their fathers, and to do the law and the command;

⁵ and he turneth aside out of all cities of Judah the high places and the images, and the kingdom is quiet before him.

²³ And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;

²⁴ and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

⁷ Then doth Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that `is' on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon;

⁸ and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before -- an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

¹⁸ having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

²⁶ Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

²⁷ and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

² `Jehovah was wroth against your fathers -- wrath!

³ And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

⁴ Ye shall not be as your fathers, To whom the former prophets called, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Turn back I pray you, From your evil ways and from your evil doings, And they did not hearken, Nor attend to Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵ Your fathers -- where `are' they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?

⁶ Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'

¹⁸ And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.

¹⁹ I `am' Jehovah your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them,

³ and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;