Because they have abandoned me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’
Deuteronomy 29:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They turned and served other gods, worshiping them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 for they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they knew not and that He had not given to them. American Standard Version (1901) and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not, and that he had not given unto them: Common English Bible They followed other gods, serving them and worshipping them—other gods that they hadn’t experienced before and that the Lord hadn’t designated for them. Catholic Public Domain Version And they have served foreign gods, and adored them, though they did not know them, and though they had not been allotted to them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned. |
Because they have abandoned me and have made offerings to other gods, so that they have provoked me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’
then you shall say to them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,
The Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.
They will conclude, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
so the anger of the Lord was kindled against that land, bringing on it every curse written in this book.
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?