8 After that all the people answered unanimously and said: “All that Jehovah has spoken we are willing to do.”+ Immediately Moses took back the words of the people to Jehovah.+

40 And they will certainly confess their own error+ and the error of their fathers in their unfaithfulness when they behaved unfaithfully toward me, yes, even when they walked in opposition to me.+

33 The reason why is that they have left me+ and begun to bow down to Ashʹto·reth+ the goddess* of the Si·doʹni·ans, to Cheʹmosh+ the god* of Moʹab and to Milʹcom+ the god of the sons of Amʹmon; and they have not walked in my ways by doing what is right in my eyes and my statutes and my judicial decisions like David his father.

7 From the days of our forefathers+ we have been in great guiltiness until this day;+ and because of our errors we have been given, we ourselves, our kings,+ our priests,+ into the hand of the kings of the lands with the sword,+ with the captivity+ and with the plunder+ and with shame of face,+ just as this day.

34 As for our kings, our princes, our priests and our forefathers,+ they have not performed your law,+ nor paid attention to your commandments+ or to your testimonies* with which you bore witness+ against them.

16 for the reason that they rejected my own judicial decisions; and as regards my statutes, they did not walk in them, and my sabbaths they profaned, because it was after their dungy idols that their heart was going.+