4. Bethel was a place of false worship in the northern kingdom and Gilgal must have been another. The LORD condemns the people of Israel for worshiping in these places.
The people of Israel perform religious rituals faithfully: "Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days."
5. They also offer thank offerings and freewill offerings (although they use leavened bread in their thank offerings, which I think was forbidden).
The problem is that they were not worshiping the LORD, but some other God. If they wanted to worship the LORD, they would have worshiped Him in Jerusalem and in the way that He told them to do.
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