Fordi de har forlatt Meg, og tilber Astarte, sidoniernes gudinne, Kamosj, Moabs gud, og Milkom, ammonittenes gud, og ikke vandret i Mine veier, for å gjøre det som rett er i Mine øyne, og Mine bud og Mine dommer, som David, hans far, gjorde.
`Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth, god`dess' of the Zidonians, to Chemosh god of Moab, and to Milcom god of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways, to do that which `is' right in Mine eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, like David his father.