2 Kings 21:3 - The Scriptures 1998 For he turned and built the high places which Ḥ More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the [starry] hosts of the heavens and served them! American Standard Version (1901) For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. Common English Bible He rebuilt the shrines that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made a sacred pole, just as Israel’s King Ahab had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshipped them. Catholic Public Domain Version And he turned away. And he built up the high places that his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. And he erected altars to Baal, and he made sacred groves, just as Ahab, the king of Israel, had done. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he turned, and built up the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed. And he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done. And he adored all the host of heaven, and served them. |
So they took the bull which was given them, and prepared it, and called on the name of Baʽ
And they left all the commands of יהוה their Elohim, and made for themselves a moulded image, two calves, and made an Ashĕ
“But when you say to me, ‘We trust in יהוה our Elohim,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Ḥ
He took away the high places and broke the pillars, and cut down the Ashĕ
And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the Elohim of his father Dawiḏ
if I have looked at the sun when it shines, or the moon moving in brightness,
“But you are those who forsake יהוה, who forget My set-apart mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who fill a drink offering for Meni.
“For the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Aḥ
“When there is found in your midst, in any of your cities which יהוה your Elohim is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim, in transgressing His covenant,
and has gone and served other mighty ones and bowed down to them, or to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded,
lest they teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their mighty ones, and you sin against יהוה your Elohim.
and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars – all the host of the heavens – and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which יהוה your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.