Pinocchio blindly follows Honest John to Pleasure Island, where the promise of endless fun awaits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjgf-HQKRcE. Only too late does he find out he has been duped and is now headed toward his own destruction. In the same way, Israel blindly followed the false gods of their own choosing and ended up beaten and bruised by the very ones who promised them good.