Having abandoned their God, Jehovah ​ — “the fountain of living waters ” — ​ the Israelites had turned to shaky military alliances with pagan nations and to the worship of impotent, false deities.
इस्राएलियों ने ऐसी संधियों और झूठे देवी - देवताओं से शरण पाने की उम्मीद की ।