“But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:”
"Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods, and worshipped them and served them; therefore the LORD has brought all this evil upon them.'" — The *explanation* for destruction: *forsaking God*, *serving other gods*, *breaking the covenant*. The *causality* is explicit: *disobedience produces judgment*. This theological *pattern*—covenant, breaking, judgment—becomes the *narrative arc* of later Israelite history.
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