Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا نَصِيبًا مِنَ الْكِتَابِ يَشْتَرُونَ الضَّلَالَةَ وَيُرِيدُونَ أَنْ تَضِلُّوا السَّبِيلَ

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.