Hosea 11:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The more [the prophets] called to them, the more they went from them; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to the graven images. American Standard Version (1901) The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Common English Bible The more I called them, the further they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and they burned incense to idols. Catholic Public Domain Version They called them, and so they departed before their face. They offered victims to the Baals, and they sacrificed to graven images. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols. |
And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to burn incense.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
For my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him.
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense; when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides commit adultery.
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!
And this is the judgement, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and served him not.
And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.