¹⁶ Jehovah now said to Moses: “Look! You are lying down with your forefathers;+ and this people will certainly get up+ and have immoral intercourse* with foreign gods of the land to which they are going,+ in their very midst, and they will certainly forsake me+ and break my covenant that I have concluded with them.+

¹⁵ When Jesh′u·run*+ began to grow fat, then he kicked.*+

You have grown fat, you have become thick, you have become gorged.+

So he forsook God,* who made him,+

And despised the Rock*+ of his salvation.

¹¹ And the sons of Israel fell to doing what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah+ and serving* the Ba′als.+

20 Now there happened to be there a good-for-nothing man,*+ whose name was She′ba,+ the son of Bich′ri a Ben′ja·min·ite; and he proceeded to blow the horn+ and say: “We have no share in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jes′se.+ Every one to his gods,*+ O Israel!”

²⁶ “However, they became disobedient+ and rebelled against you+ and kept casting your law behind their back,+ and your own prophets they killed,+ who bore witness against them to bring them back to you;+ and they went on committing acts of great disrespect.+