“And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.”
they abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples around them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger. — The description of Israel's apostasy emphasizes the covenant breach as willful rejection of inherited relationship. The phrase 'who had brought them out of the land of Egypt' invokes the foundational covenant narrative, making subsequent idolatry particularly egregious. The verb 'followed... and bowed down' indicates active pursuit and ritual performance of alternative religious devotion.
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