7. All this happened because the Israelites sinned against the Lord their God, who brought them up from the land of Egypt, out from under the power of Pharaoh, Egypt’s king. They worshipped other gods.
8. They followed the practices of the nations that the Lord had removed before the Israelites, as well as the practices that the Israelite kings had done.
9. The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that weren’t right. They built shrines in all their towns, from watchtowers to fortified cities.
10. They set up sacred pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and beneath every green tree.