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Bible in Basic English

And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:

New American Standard Bible

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.

King James Version

For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Holman Bible

They began to worship other gods, bowing down to gods they had not known—gods that the Lord had not permitted them to worship.

International Standard Version

"Because they've abandoned the covenant of their LORD, the God of their ancestors that he had made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshipped other gods whom they had not known and whom he did not assign to them.

A Conservative Version

and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given to them.

American Standard Version

and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them:

Amplified

For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, [false] gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted (given) to them.

Darby Translation

and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will go and serve other gods, and will worship to them gods which they knew them not, and a portion not to them.

King James 2000

For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he had not allotted to them.

Modern King James verseion

For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods whom they did not know, and who had not given to them any portion.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they went and served strange gods and worshipped them: gods which they knew not and which had given them nought.

NET Bible

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

New Heart English Bible

and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they did not know, and that he had not given to them:

The Emphasized Bible

and went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, - gods which they had not known, and in which he had given them no share:

Webster

For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods which they knew not, and which he had not given to them:

World English Bible

and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:

Youngs Literal Translation

and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them -- gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

and served
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

not, and whom he had not given
חלק 
Chalaq 
Usage: 65

References

Context Readings

Abandoning The Covenant

25 Then men will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt: 26 And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them: 27 And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:64

And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

Judges 2:12-13

And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

Judges 5:8

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?

2 Kings 17:7-18

And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

2 Chronicles 36:12-17

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

Jeremiah 19:3-13

Say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem; the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send evil on this place which will be bitter to the ears of anyone hearing of it.

Jeremiah 44:2-6

The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;

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