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So the Israelites got rid of their images of Baal and Ashtoreth and worshiped only the Lord.

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“O Israel,[a] stay away from idols!
    I am the one who answers your prayers and cares for you.
I am like a tree that is always green;
    all your fruit comes from me.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:8 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.

Assyria cannot save us,
    nor can our warhorses.
Never again will we say to the idols we have made,
    ‘You are our gods.’
No, in you alone
    do the orphans find mercy.”

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33 For Solomon has[a] abandoned me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of the Ammonites. He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father did.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:33 As in Greek, Syriac, and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads For they have.

15 But the Israelites pleaded with the Lord and said, “We have sinned. Punish us as you see fit, only rescue us today from our enemies.” 16 Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the Lord. And he was grieved by their misery.

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13 They abandoned the Lord to serve Baal and the images of Ashtoreth.

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11 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight and served the images of Baal.

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