Explain ways in which the Israelites moved away from the true worship of Yahweh during Prophet Elijah’s time.
- They worshipped idols/Baal and Asherah.
- They intermarried with foreigners.
- They practiced temple prostitution/fertility rituals.
- They offered human sacrifices.
- They practiced injustices like corruption.
- They practiced syncretism.
- They established alternative places of worship/shrines, thereby undermining Jerusalem.
- They had priests who were not Levites thereby defiling the priesthood.
- They held their religious ceremonies in months of their choice.
- They destroyed and neglected Yahweh’s altars.