16 And they kept leaving all the commandments+ of Jehovah their God and proceeded to make for themselves molten statues,+ two calves,+ and to make a sacred pole,+ and they began to bow down to all the army of the heavens+ and to serve Baʹal;+

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

18 The sons are picking up sticks of wood, and the fathers are lighting the fire, and the wives* are kneading flour dough in order to make sacrificial cakes to the ‘queen* of the heavens’;+ and there is a pouring out* of drink offerings+ to other gods for the purpose of offending me.+

13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah must become like the place of Toʹpheth,+ unclean ones, that is, all the houses upon the roofs of which they made sacrificial smoke to all the army of the heavens+ and there was a pouring out of drink offerings to other gods.’”*+

25 This is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, has said, ‘As for YOU men and YOUR wives,+ YOU women also speak with YOUR mouths, (and with YOUR hands YOU people have made a fulfillment,) saying: “We shall without fail perform our vows that we have vowed,+ to make sacrificial smoke to the ‘queen of the heavens’+ and to pour out drink offerings to her.”+ YOU women will without fail carry out YOUR vows, and YOU will without fail perform YOUR vows.’