¹⁵ For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors.^(A) He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates^(B) because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.^(C)

³⁰ This was because Jeroboam had provoked^[a] the Lord God of Israel by the sins he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.^(A)

¹¹ They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the Lord had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the Lord.

²⁵ He made high places in every city of Judah to offer incense to other gods, and he provoked the Lord, the God of his ancestors.