And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord. This apostasy seems to have exceeded every former one in the grossness and universality of the idolatry practiced, the Hebrews having, if they did not actually erect a Pantheon, adopted the objects of worship among the several pagan countries contiguous to the district of Palestine in which they lived.