The people built high places, stone memorials, and sacred poles. [177] They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 16:22 - Easy To Read Version And you must not set up special stones for worshiping false gods. The Lord your God hates those things. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Neither shall you set up an idolatrous stone or image, which the Lord your God hates. American Standard Version (1901) Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth. Common English Bible Don’t set up any sacred stone either, because the LORD your God hates such things. Catholic Public Domain Version you shall neither make nor set up for yourself a statue. These things the Lord your God hates." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth. |
The people built high places, stone memorials, and sacred poles. [177] They built them on every high hill and under every green tree.
The Israelites put up memorial stones [201] and Asherah poles [202] on every high hill and under every green tree.
“You must not make any idols. [124] Don’t make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water.
So destroy their altars. [342] Break the stones they worship. Cut down their idols. [343]
I sent my prophets to those people again and again. Those prophets were my servants. Those prophets spoke my message and said to the people, ‘Don’t do this terrible thing. I hate for you to worship idols.’
“Don’t make idols for yourselves. Don’t set up statues or memorials [440] in your land to bow down to. Why? Because I am the Lord your God!
Don’t make secret plans to hurt your neighbors! Don’t make false promises! You must not enjoy doing those things. Why? Because I hate those things!” The Lord said these things.
Don’t do that to the Lord your God! {Don’t worship God like that! Why?} Because those people do all kinds of bad things that the Lord hates. They even burn their children as sacrifices to their gods!
So be careful! Don’t sin and destroy yourselves by making false gods or statues in the shape of any living thing. Don’t make an idol that looks like a man or a woman.
In that new land, you must be careful not to forget the Agreement that the Lord your God made with you. You must obey the Lord’s command. Don’t make any idols in any form!
“You will live in the country a long time. You will have children and grandchildren there. You will grow old there. And then you will ruin your lives—you will make all kinds of idols! When you do that, you will make God very angry!
It is the same \{in your group\}. You have people who follow the teaching of the Nicolaitans. {\cf2\super [19]}
But there is something you do \{that is right\}: You hate the things that the Nicolaitans {\cf2\super [13]} do. I also hate what they do.