The Importance of Prayer in Relationship

In the Middle East at that time, there was an idea that thresholds to buildings were sacred. It was considered bad luck to simply step over the threshold. Daphneia points out this basically people are saying, you know, you rub the rabbit's feet or you don't walk under ladders. And lastly, so first idolatry second prayer, their avoiding prayer, avoiding listening to the Lord, third bad leaders, fourth superstitions. This is in verse 12 of Zephaniah: I will search Jerusalem with lamps and I'll punish the men who are thickening on their drugs.