⁹ Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves ^[a]high places in all their cities, ^(A)from watchtower to fortified city.

^8 (A)He ^[a]subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory, ^(B)from watchtower to fortified city.

¹² Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ^(A)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”

^15 (A)‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or molded image, ^[a]an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’

^(B)“And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen!’

^6 (A)“If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, ^(B)the wife ^[a]of your bosom, or your friend ^(C)who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers,