35. but they intermarried with themand adopted their pagan ways.
36. God's people worshipped idols,and this caused their destruction.
37. They offered their own sons and daughtersas sacrifices to the idols of Canaan.
38. They killed those innocent children,and the land was defiled by those murders.
39. They made themselves impure by their actionsand were unfaithful to God.
40. So the Lord was angry with his people;he was disgusted with them.
41. He abandoned them to the power of the heathen,and their enemies ruled over them.
42. They were oppressed by their enemiesand were in complete subjection to them.