⁸ and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

⁸ They had followed the practices of the pagan nations the Lord had driven from the land ahead of them, as well as the practices the kings of Israel had introduced.

⁸ And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

⁸ fell in with the ways of life of the pagan nations God had chased off, and went along with whatever their kings did.