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1 Kings 14:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

“You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.

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Jeroboam asked for advice and then made two gold statues of calves. He showed them to the people and said, “Listen everyone! You won't have to go to Jerusalem to worship any more. Here are your gods who rescued you from Egypt.”

Jeroboam sinned and caused the Israelites to sin. Now the LORD will desert Israel.

The people of Judah disobeyed the LORD and made him even angrier than their ancestors had.

The LORD's prophet Ahijah had earlier said, “Not one man or boy in Jeroboam's family will be left alive.” And, as soon as Baasha became king, he killed everyone in Jeroboam's family,

because Jeroboam had made the LORD God of Israel angry by sinning and causing the Israelites to sin.

Baasha also disobeyed the LORD by acting like Jeroboam, who had caused the Israelites to sin.

Omri did more evil things than any king before him.

Ahab did more things to disobey the LORD than any king before him.

He acted just like Jeroboam. Even worse, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon and started worshipping Baal.

and set up a sacred pole for worshipping the goddess Asherah. Ahab did more to make the LORD God of Israel angry than any king of Israel before him.

He rebuilt the local shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down. He built altars for the god Baal and set up a sacred pole for worshipping the goddess Asherah, just as King Ahab of Israel had done. And he faithfully worshipped the stars in heaven.

But the LORD was still furious with the people of Judah because Manasseh had done so many things to make him angry.

But he kept doing the sinful things that Jeroboam son of Nebat had led Israel to do.

Jeroboam chose his own priests to serve at the local shrines in Israel and at the places of worship where he had set up statues of goat-demons and of calves.

and even set up a stone image of a foreign god. Manasseh practised magic and witchcraft; he asked fortune-tellers for advice and sacrificed his own sons in Hinnom Valley. He did many other sinful things and made the LORD very angry. Years ago, God had told David and Solomon: Jerusalem is the place I prefer above all others in Israel. It belongs to me, and there in the temple I will be worshipped for ever.

They captured strong cities and rich farmland; they took furnished houses, as well as cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and numerous fruit trees. They ate till they were satisfied, and they celebrated your abundant blessings.

In spite of this, they rebelled and disobeyed your laws. They killed your prophets, who warned them to turn back to you, and they cursed your name.

They did such terrible things that you punished them with a deadly disease.

You refused correction and rejected my commands.

While they were in the desert, they often rebelled and made God sad.

But the people tested God Most High, and they refused to obey his laws.

God demanded all their love, but they made him angry by worshipping idols.

Don't make metal images of gods.

You show kindness for a thousand generations, but you also punish people for the sins of their parents. You are the LORD All-Powerful.

Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.

But you have ignored me and become even more stubborn and sinful than your ancestors ever were!

You have completely rejected me, and so I promise that you will be punished for the disgusting things you did as a prostitute.

God said, “Ezekiel, it's bad enough that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things. But they have also spread violence and injustice everywhere in Israel and have made me very angry. They have disgraced and insulted me in the worst possible way.

It reached out what seemed to be a hand and grabbed my hair. Then in my vision the LORD's Spirit lifted me into the sky and carried me to Jerusalem. The Spirit took me to the north gate of the temple's inner courtyard, where there was an idol that disgusted the LORD and made him furious.

We would make the Lord jealous if we did that. And we are not stronger than the Lord.

You worshipped worthless idols, and made me jealous and angry! Now I will send a cruel and worthless nation to make you jealous and angry.

In fact, you've rebelled against the LORD for as long as he has known you.

The Israelites worshipped other gods, and the gates of their towns were then attacked. But they had no shields or spears to fight with.




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