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1 Kings 14:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

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So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

And they took walled towns and a fat land, and became the owners of houses full of all good things, water-holes cut in the rock, vine-gardens and olive-gardens and a wealth of fruit-trees: so they had food enough and became fat, and had joy in the good you gave them.

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

So they made him angry by their behaviour; and he sent disease on them.

Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

You have mercy on thousands, and send punishment for the evil-doing of the fathers on their children after them: the great, the strong God, the Lord of armies is his name:

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.

And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?




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