¹⁴ But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestors^[a] who did not believe in Yahweh their God. ¹⁵ They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he made^[b] with their ancestors,^[c] and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and went after all the nations which were all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they did. ¹⁶ They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal.