The sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

So the sons of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth and served the Lord alone.

They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

“I will punish her for the days of the Baals
When she used to offer sacrifices to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

“For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth,
So that they will be mentioned by their names no more.

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and even used the holy things of the house of the Lord for the Baals.

But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals.