But God turned away from them and gave them over<n id="1" /> to worship the host<n id="2" /> of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: &#8216;<b><i>It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrificesi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>forty years in the wilderness, was it,i>b><n id="4" /> <b><i>house of Israel?i>b>