2 Kings 17:10-17

New International Version

¹⁰ They set up sacred stones^(A) and Asherah poles^(B) on every high hill and under every spreading tree.^{(C) 11} At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger. ¹² They worshiped idols,^(D) though the Lord had said, “You shall not do this.”^{[a] 13} The Lord warned^(E) Israel and Judah through all his prophets and seers:^(F) “Turn from your evil ways.^(G) Observe my commands and decrees, in accordance with the entire Law that I commanded your ancestors to obey and that I delivered to you through my servants the prophets.”^(H)

¹⁴ But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked^(I) as their ancestors, who did not trust in the Lord their God. ¹⁵ They rejected his decrees and the covenant^(J) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols^(K) and themselves became worthless.^(L) They imitated the nations^(M) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

¹⁶ They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves,^(N) and an Asherah^(O) pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts,^(P) and they worshiped Baal.^{(Q) 17} They sacrificed^(R) their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens^(S) and sold^(T) themselves to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.