^{11 Ref} and make perfume there in all high places, like the nations that Jehovah removed from their presence, and do evil things to provoke Jehovah,

^{12 Ref} and serve the idols, of which Jehovah said to them, `Ye do not do this thing;'

^{13 Ref} And Jehovah testifieth against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, `Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent unto you by the hand of My servants the prophets;'

^{14 Ref} and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,

^{15 Ref} and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

^{16 Ref} And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal,

^{17 Ref} and cause their sons and their daughters to pass over through fire, and divine divinations, and use enchantments, and sell themselves to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him;

^{18 Ref} That Jehovah sheweth himself very angry against Israel, and turneth them aside from His presence; none hath been left, only the tribe of Judah by itself.

^{19 Ref} Also Judah hath not kept the commands of Jehovah their God, and they walk in the statutes of Israel that they had made.

^{20 Ref} And Jehovah kicketh against all the seed of Israel, and afflicteth them, and giveth them into the hand of spoilers, till that He hath cast them out of His presence,

^{21 Ref} for He hath rent Israel from the house of David, and they make Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam driveth Israel from after Jehovah, and hath caused them to sin a great sin,

^{22 Ref} and the sons of Israel walk in all the sins of Jeroboam that he did, they have not turned aside therefrom,

^{23 Ref} till that Jehovah hath turned Israel aside from His presence, as He spake by the hand of all His servants the prophets, and Israel is removed from off its land to Asshur, unto this day.