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Israel’s devotion to shrines and substitutes for God becomes a source of self-deception, masking sin and inviting judgment.
4Come to Bethel, and disobey; to Gilgal, [and] multiply disobedience; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes every three days;
5and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
25Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
26Yes, you have borne the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves.
27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
5but don`t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don`t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
14Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As your god, Dan, lives; and, As the way of Beersheba lives; they shall fall, and never rise up again.
1I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Strike the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.