7. And so it was, because the children of Israel had sinned against Jehovah their God who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods;
8. and they walked in the statutes of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9. And the children of Israel did secretly against Jehovah their God things that were not right; and they built them high places in all their cities, from the watchmen's tower to the fortified city.
10. And they set them up columns and Asherahs on every high hill and under every green tree;
11. and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
12. and they served idols, as to which Jehovah had said to them, Ye shall not do this thing.
13. And Jehovah testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets, all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments, my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through my servants the prophets.
14. But they would not hear, and hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in Jehovah their God