King Pul of Assyria came against the land; Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that he might help him confirm his hold on the royal power.
1 Chronicles 5:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But they transgressed against the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves to the gods of the peoples of the land whom God had destroyed before them. More versionsKing 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. |
King Pul of Assyria came against the land; Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that he might help him confirm his hold on the royal power.
These were the heads of their clans: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their clans.
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.
You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice,
When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and have children of prostitution, for the land commits great prostitution by forsaking the Lord.”
Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do, for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay on all threshing floors.
and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.”
and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them, and bowed down to them, and they provoked the Lord to anger.
Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.
As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites relapsed and prostituted themselves with the Baals, making Baal-berith their god.