⁸ They have turned aside quickly out of the way which ^(A)I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ^(B)‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ”

¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(B)invites you and you ^(C)eat of his sacrifice,

⁷ They shall no more offer their sacrifices ^(A)to ^[a]demons, after whom they ^(B)have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.” ’

^2 (A)They invited the people to ^(B)the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and ^(C)bowed down to their gods.

^2 (A)“If there is found among you, within any of your ^[a]gates which the Lord your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the Lord your God, ^(B)in transgressing His covenant,

³ who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either ^(A)the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, ^(B)which I have not commanded,

⁵ then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has committed that wicked thing, and ^(A)shall stone ^(B)to death that man or woman with stones.

⁴⁰ And Elijah said to them, ^(A)“Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook ^(B)Kishon and ^(C)executed them there.

²⁵ Now it happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, “Go in and kill them; let no one come out!” And they killed them with the edge of the sword; then the guards and the officers threw them out, and went into the ^[a]inner room of the temple of Baal.