²⁹Yet every nation was making their^l gods, and they put them in the shrine of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they were living. ³⁰The men of Babylonia made Succoth Benoth; the men of Cuth made Nergal; the men of Hamath made Ashima. ³¹The Arvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim. ³²Those who were fearing Yahweh made priests of the high places from among themselves,^m and they were sacrificing for them in the shrines of the high places. ³³Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the customs of the nations from which they were deported.

³⁴Until this day they are doing according to their former customs; none of them are fearing Yahweh, and none of them are doing according to their statutes, to their decisions, to the law, or to the commands that Yahweh commanded the descendantsⁿ of Jacob to whom he had given the name Israel.

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Footnotes

lHebrew “his”
mLiterally “for them from their ends”
nOr “sons”