Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power.
1 Chronicles 5:25 - Revised Standard Version But they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They transgressed against the God of their fathers and played the harlot [by unfaithfulness to their own God and running] after the gods of the native peoples, whom God had destroyed before them. American Standard Version (1901) And they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them. Common English Bible But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and faithlessly followed the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. Catholic Public Domain Version But they abandoned the God of their fathers, and they fornicated after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God took away before them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. |
Pul the king of Assyria came against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold of the royal power.
These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azri-el, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdi-el, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses.
So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.
lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one invites you, you eat of his sacrifice,
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord.”
Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved a harlot's hire upon all threshing floors.
and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations.”
and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.