¹³ They abandoned the Lord and served Baal and the Astartes.^(A)

Oppression by the Ammonites

⁶ The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.^(A)

Othniel

⁷ The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God and serving the Baals and the Asherahs.^(A)

²⁰ No, I imply that what they^[a] sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.^{(A) 21} You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.^{(B) 22} Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?^(C)

⁵ Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords—

¹³ The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.^(A)

³³ This is because he has^[a] forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has^[b] not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.^(A)

⁵ For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.^(A)

¹⁰ They put his armor in the temple of Astarte,^[a] and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.^(A)