24 they and all the nations will say, ‘Why did Jehovah do this to this land?+ What caused this great, burning anger?’ 25 Then they will say, ‘It was because they abandoned the covenant of Jehovah,+ the God of their forefathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.+

20 Finally Jehovah’s anger blazed against Israel,+ and he said: “Because this nation has violated my covenant+ that I commanded their forefathers and they have disobeyed me,+

9 There was nothing in the Ark but the two stone tablets+ that Moses placed there+ at Horʹeb, when Jehovah made a covenant+ with the people of Israel while they were coming out of the land of Egypt.+

15 They continued rejecting his regulations and his covenant+ that he had made with their forefathers and his reminders that he had given to warn them,+ and they kept following worthless idols+ and became worthless themselves,+ imitating the nations all around them that Jehovah had commanded them not to imitate.+