Study it in the app“They abandoned all the commandments of YHWH their Elohim and made for themselves a cast image, two calves; and they made an Asherah, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal.”
They abandonedוַיַּעַזְבוּallאֶת כָּלthe commandmentsמִצְוֺתof YHWHיְהוָהtheir Elohimאֱלֹהֵיהֶםand madeוַיַּעֲשׂוּfor themselvesלָהֶםa cast image,מַסֵּכָהtwoשְׁנֵיcalves;עֲגָלִיםand they madeוַיַּעֲשׂוּan Asherah,אֲשֵׁירָהand bowed downוַיִּשְׁתַּחֲווּto allלְכָלthe armyצְבָאof the heavens,הַשָּׁמַיִםand servedוַיַּעַבְדוּBaal.אֶת הַבָּעַל
forsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “yaazvu” appearscommandment
An order of God that must be kept.
Where else “mitsvot” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “yaasu” appearscast image
An idol made of melted metal.
Where else “masecha” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shene” appearscalf
Calf: a young bull.
Where else “agalim” appearsAsherah
Asherah: a Canaanite goddess, and the pole or sacred tree that stood for her beside the altars.
Where else “ashera” appearsworship
To bow before God in adoration.
Where else “yishtachavu” appearsarmy
An army.
Where else “tseva” appearssky
The high space seen above the earth, where the birds, clouds, sun and stars are.
Where else “shamayim” appearsworship
To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.
Where else “yaavdu” appearsBaal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “baal” appears“The army of the heavens”: the sun, the moon, and the stars, which other peoples worshiped (Deuteronomy 4:19).
15They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies that he testified against them; and they went after what is vain and became vain, and after the nations that were around them, about which YHWH had commanded them not to do like them.
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17They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, and practiced divinations and read omens, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke him to anger.
