Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.