24 you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, ^qnor do as they do, but ^ryou shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

30 take care that you be not ^wensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ 31 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even ^xburn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

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.