Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.

King James Version

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Holman Bible

They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.

International Standard Version

They worshipped their idols, and this became a trap for them.

A Conservative Version

and served their idols, which became a snare to them.

American Standard Version

And served their idols, Which became a snare unto them.

Amplified


And served their idols,
Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.

Bible in Basic English

And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

Darby Translation

And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:

Julia Smith Translation

And they will serve their images, and they will be for a snare to them.

King James 2000

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Modern King James verseion

And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay.

NET Bible

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

New Heart English Bible

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

The Emphasized Bible

Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare:

Webster

And they served their idols: which were a snare to them.

World English Bible

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Youngs Literal Translation

And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

עצב 
`atsab 
Usage: 17

מקשׁ מוקשׁ 
Mowqesh 
Usage: 27

Verse Info

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

35 Instead, they intermarried with other nations. They learned to do what other nations did. 36 And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.
37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:16

Destroy all the peoples whom Jehovah your God gives you. Do not look at them with pity. Do not serve their gods. For that would be a snare to you.

Exodus 23:33

Do not allow them to live in your land for they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods it will be a snare to you.

Judges 2:3

I also said: 'I will not drive them out from before you. They will be thorns in your sides. Their gods will snare (trap) you.'

Exodus 34:15-16

Otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. They would commit spiritual immorality (fornication) with their gods and sacrifice to their gods. Someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice.

Joshua 23:13

Jehovah your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. This will last until none of you are left in this good land that Jehovah your God gave you.

Judges 2:12-15

They forsook Jehovah God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them. They bowed to them and provoked Jehovah to anger.

Judges 2:17

Yet they would not listen to their judges, but prostituted themselves to other gods. They worshiped them. They turned quickly, out of the way in which their fathers walked obeying the commandments of Jehovah.

Judges 2:19

When the judge was dead they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers. They followed other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

Judges 3:5-7

The people of Israel settled down among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Judges 10:6

Once again the Israelites did evil against Jehovah by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes. They also worshiped the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines. They abandoned Jehovah and stopped worshiping him.

2 Kings 17:8-11

They lived by the rules of the nations whom Jehovah sent out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 17:16-17

They broke all the laws of Jehovah their God. They made two metal bull-calves to worship. They also made an image of the goddess Asherah. Also they worshiped the stars and served the god Baal.

2 Chronicles 33:2-9

He did what Jehovah considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the Israelites.

Psalm 78:58

They provoked him to anger (indignation) because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Ezekiel 16:15-63

But you trusted your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.

Ezekiel 20:28-32

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

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