Howbeit, they did not hearken, but did after their former manner. ] They did not repent of their idolatries, but persisted in them, and even when they were in captivity in Assyria, or such of them as were left in the land.
38
And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.
39
And you are to give worship to the Lord your God; for it is he who will give you salvation from the hands of all who are against you.
40
But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.
41
So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.
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