Understand the passage in this way: “They (the colonists) served their own gods after the manner of the nations from which they (the government) re…

They feared ... gods. —Literally, Jehovah they were fearing, and their own gods they were serving. The verse recapitulate…

How this warning comes over and over and over again! Hear, O Israel. The Lord your God is one God. The worship of anything else under any …

They feared the Lord, and served their own gods
Worshipped both:

after the manner of the nations …

The terror of the Almighty will sometimes produce a forced or feigned submission in unconverted men, like those brought from different countries to…