^26 (A)You ^(B)shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves, ^27 (C)and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is ^(D)the God of hosts.

^4 (A)“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ^5 (B)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ^(C)a jealous God, ^(D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

¹⁶ And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^(A)two calves; and they ^(B)made an Asherah and ^(C)worshiped all the host of heaven and served ^(D)Baal. ^17 (E)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings^[a] and used ^(F)divination and ^(G)omens and ^(H)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^(I)the tribe of Judah only.

⁸ “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁹ You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,