^17 (A)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to ^(B)the queen of heaven ^(C)and pour out drink offerings to her, ^(D)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

¹⁰ So I went in and saw. And there, ^(A)engraved on the wall all around, was ^(B)every form of ^(C)creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. ¹¹ And before them stood ^(D)seventy men of ^(E)the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of ^(F)Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and ^(G)the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.