15 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They ^mwent after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, ⁿconcerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

33 ^uHas any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? ^vHave they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”