2 Kings 17:15 AMPC

[15] They despised and rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers and His warnings to them, and they followed vanity (false gods-falsehood, emptiness, and futility) and [they themselves and their prayers] became false (empty and futile). They went after the heathen round about them, of whom the Lord had charged them that they should not do as they did.