15 “And it must occur that if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God by taking care to do all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, all these maledictions must also come upon you and overtake you:+

18 And gradually they left the house of Jehovah the God of their forefathers and began serving the sacred poles+ and the idols,+ so that there came to be indignation against Judah and Jerusalem because of this guilt of theirs.+