7 So the sons of Israel did what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, and they were forgetful of Jehovah their God+ and went serving the Baʹals+ and the sacred poles.*+

6 And the sons of Israel again proceeded to do what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah,+ and they began to serve the Baʹals+ and the Ashʹto·reth+ images and the gods of Syria+ and the gods of Siʹdon+ and the gods of Moʹab+ and the gods of the sons of Amʹmon+ and the gods of the Phi·lisʹtines.+ So they left Jehovah and did not serve him.+

18 To this he said: “I have not brought ostracism+ upon Israel, but you and the house of your father have,+ because YOU men have left the commandments of Jehovah,+ and you went following the Baʹals.+

2 But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel,+ and even molten+ statues he made of the Baʹals.+

23 How can you say, ‘I have not defiled myself.+ After the Baʹals* I have not walked’?+ See your way in the valley.+ Take note of what you have done. A swift young she-camel aimlessly running to and fro in her ways;

13 And I will hold an accounting+ against her for the days of the Baʹal images*+ to which she kept making sacrificial smoke,+ when she kept decking herself with her ring and her ornament+ and kept going after her passionate lovers,+ and I was the one that she forgot,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah.