Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

New American Standard Bible

Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,

King James Version

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

Holman Bible

For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures to your temples.

International Standard Version

since you took my silver and gold, carried my precious treasures into your temples,

A Conservative Version

Inasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

American Standard Version

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

Amplified

Because you have taken My silver and My gold and have carried My precious treasures to your temples and palaces,

Darby Translation

because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my beautiful pleasant things,

Julia Smith Translation

For ye took my silver and my gold, and my delights of good things ye brought to your temples.

King James 2000

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious things:

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples.

Modern King James verseion

because you have taken My silver and My gold, and have carried My good treasures into your temples.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for ye have taken away my silver and gold, my fair and goodly jewels, and brought them into your gods' houses.

NET Bible

For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

New Heart English Bible

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

The Emphasized Bible

Because, my silver and my gold, ye took away, - and, my richly beautiful things, carried ye into your temples;

Webster

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things.

World English Bible

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

Youngs Literal Translation

In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

my silver
כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

and my gold
זהב 
Zahab 
Usage: 390


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

היכל 
heykal 
Usage: 80

Context Readings

Yahweh's Judgment On The Nations

4 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head, 5 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things. 6 And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

Cross References

2 Kings 12:18

Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 21:16-17

Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;

1 Samuel 5:2-5

They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon.

2 Kings 16:8

And Ahaz took the silver and gold which were in the house of the Lord and in the king's store-house, and sent them as an offering to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 18:15-16

So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.

2 Kings 24:13

And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.

2 Kings 25:13-17

And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:28

The voice of those who are in flight, who have got away safe from the land of Babylon, to give news in Zion of punishment from the Lord our God, even payment for his Temple.

Jeremiah 51:11

Make bright the arrows; take up the body-covers: the Lord has been moving the spirit of the king of the Medes; because his design against Babylon is its destruction: for it is the punishment from the Lord, the payment for his Temple.

Daniel 5:2-3

Belshazzar, while he was overcome with wine, gave orders for them to put before him the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem; so that the king and his lords, his wives and his other women, might take their drink from them.

Daniel 11:38

But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.

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