Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

They called to them, thus they went from them: they will sacrifice to the Baals, and to the carved images they will burn incense.

New American Standard Bible

The more they called them,
The more they went from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to idols.

King James Version

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Holman Bible

The more they called them,
the more they departed from Me.
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

International Standard Version

The more I called out to them, the farther they fled from me; they sacrificed to Baals, burning incense to carved images.

A Conservative Version

The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

American Standard Version

The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Amplified


The more they [the prophets] called them [to repentance and obedience],
The more they went away from them;
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
And burning incense to the carved images.

Bible in Basic English

When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.

Darby Translation

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baals, and burned incense to graven images.

King James 2000

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols.

Modern King James verseion

As they called them, so they went from them. They sacrifice to the Baals, and burn incense to graven images.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But the more they were called, the more they went back, offering unto Idols, and censing Images.

NET Bible

But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

New Heart English Bible

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

The Emphasized Bible

They invited them, - at once, they departed from before me, they, to the Baals, sacrificed, and, to the images, offered incense.

Webster

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed to Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

World English Bible

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have called to them rightly, They have gone from before them, To lords they do sacrifice, And to graven images they make perfume.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

them, so they went
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

זבח 
Zabach 
Usage: 134

בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 81

קטר 
Qatar 
Usage: 116

References

Context Readings

God Will Have Compassion

1 When Israel was a child, and I loved him, and I called for my son out of Egypt 2 They called to them, thus they went from them: they will sacrifice to the Baals, and to the carved images they will burn incense. 3 And I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; and they knew not that I healed them.

Cross References

Hosea 2:13

And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.

Isaiah 65:7

Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom.

Jeremiah 18:15

Because my people forgat me they will burn incense in vain; by their ways they will cause the paths of old to fail, to go beaten paths, a way not cast up;

Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.

Hosea 13:1-2

According to the word Ephraim being terrified be was lifted up in Israel; and he will transgress in Baal and die.

Deuteronomy 29:2-4

And Moses will call to all Israel and will say, to them, Ye saw all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

Judges 2:13

And they will forsake Jehovah, and will serve Baal and Ashtaroth.

Judges 3:7

And the sons of Israel will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and they will forget Jehovah their God, and they will serve the Baalims and the wooden pillars.

Judges 10:6

And the sons of Israel will add to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and they will serve the Baalims, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of Philisteim; and they will forsake Jehovah and not serve

1 Samuel 8:7-9

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them.

1 Kings 12:33

And he brought up upon the altar which he made m the house of God, in the fifteenth day, in the eighth month, in the month which he devised of himself; and he will make a festival to the sons of Israel: and he will go up upon the altar to burn incense.

1 Kings 16:31-32

And it will be light for him to go in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, and he will take a wife, Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians, and he will go and serve Baal and worship to him.

1 Kings 18:19

And now send, gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the pillar, four hundred, eating at the table of Jezebel.

2 Kings 17:13-16

And Jehovah will testify in Israel and in Judah by the hand of all his prophets, all seeing, saying, Turn back from your evil ways and watch my commands, my laws according to all my instruction which I commanded your fathers, and which I Sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets.

2 Chronicles 36:15-16

And Jehovah the God of their fathers will send to them by the hand of his messengers, rising early and sending; for he compassionated upon his people, and upon his dwelling:

Nehemiah 9:30

And thou wilt protract over them many years, and thou wilt testify against them by thy spirit in the hand of thy prophets: and they gave not ear, and thou wilt give them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Isaiah 30:9-11

For this is a people of contradiction, sons of lies, sons who will not to hear the law of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 35:13

Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel, Go and say to the man Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hear to my word? says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 44:15-17

And they will answer Jeremiah, all the men knowing that their wives burn incense to other gods, and all the women standing, a great convocation, and all the people dwelling in the land of Egypt in Pathros, saying,

Zechariah 1:4

Ye shall not be as your fathers which the former prophets called to them, saying, Thus, said Jehovah of armies: Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil doings: and they heard not, and they attended not to me, says Jehovah.

Zechariah 7:11

And they will refuse to attend, and they will give a stubborn shoulder, and their ears they made heavy from hearing.

Luke 13:34

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and striking with stones those having been sent to her; how often I wished to gather thy children together, which manner a hen her young brood under the wings, and ye would not!

John 3:19

And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.

Acts 7:51

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

2 Corinthians 2:15-16

For we are to God a sweet odor of Christ, in the saved, and in the host:

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