Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

And Elijah drew near to them all. And Elijah said to them, How long will you halt on both feet? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him. And the people answered not a word.

They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.

and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and swear by the Lord, and them that swear by their king;

"No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one, and he will despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

And because of this, God will send them strong delusion, in order for them to believe the lie,

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish [that] you were cold or hot.

Therefore, since you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth.

The inhabitants of Samaria shall dwell near the calf of the house of On; for the people of it mourned for it. And as they provoked Him, they shall rejoice at His glory, because He has departed from them.

Samaria has cast off her king as a twig on the surface of the water.

Cast off your calf, O Samaria; My anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?

Seeing the workman made it, and it is not God; for your calf, O Samaria, was a deceiver.

And it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.

And he shall break to pieces the pillars of Heliopolis that are in On, and shall burn their houses with fire.

And I will utterly destroy your graven images, and your statues out of the midst of you; and you shall never any more worship the works of your hands.

And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.