﴿ وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ءَالِهَةًۭ لَّعَلَّهُمْ يُنصَرُونَ ﴾

“But [nay,] they take to worshipping deities other than God, [hoping] to be succoured [by them, and not knowing that]”

And they have taken besides God in other words other than Him other gods idols which they worship that perhaps they might be helped protected against God’s chastisement by their gods’ interceding for them as they are wont to claim.