Israel’s Unfaithfulness

11 ^sAnd the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 ^tAnd they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. ^uThey went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and ^vbowed down to them. ^wAnd they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They abandoned the Lord ^xand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.

25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down ^qthe Asherah that is beside it