⁸ and followed the practices of the nations^(A) the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

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.

²⁵ When they first lived there, they did not worship the Lord; so he sent lions^(A) among them and they killed some of the people.