30 Watch out for yourself for fear you may be entrapped after them,+ after they have been annihilated from before you, and for fear you may inquire respecting their gods, saying, ‘How was it these nations used to serve* their gods? And I, yes, I, will do the same way.’

2 And he proceeded to do what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes,+ according to the detestable things of the nations+ that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel.

3 And he himself made sacrificial smoke+ in the valley of the son of Hinʹnom*+ and proceeded to burn up his sons*+ in the fire, according to the detestable+ things of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel.+

10 So I went in and began to see, and, look! there was every representation+ of creeping things and loathsome beasts,+ and all the dungy idols of the house of Israel,+ the carving being upon the wall all round about.