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11 The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.(A) They worshipped the Baals(B)

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13 for they abandoned him and worshipped Baal and the Ashtoreths.(A)

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Israel’s Rebellion and Repentance

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(A) They worshipped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines.(B) They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.(C)

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21 Then Elijah approached all the people and said, ‘How long will you waver between two opinions?[a](A) If the Lord is God, follow him. But if Baal, follow him.’(B) But the people didn’t answer him a word.

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Footnotes

  1. 18:21 Lit you hobble on two crutches?

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down(A) and re-established the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.

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23 How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals’?(A)
Look at your behaviour in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.(B)
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,

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I will stretch out my hand(A) against Judah
and against all the residents of Jerusalem.
I will cut off every vestige of Baal(B)
from this place,
the names of the pagan priests(C)
along with the priests;

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