37. The statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, you shall observe to do forever more. You shall not fear other gods.
38. You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods.
39. But you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”
40. However they didn’t listen, but they did what they did before.
41. So these nations feared the Lord, and also served their engraved images. Their children likewise, and their children’s children, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.