Elijah came to all the people. He said, “When will you people decide who to follow? If the Lord is the true God, then you should follow him. But if Baal [200] is the true God, then you should follow him!”
Hosea 10:2 - Easy To Read Version The people of Israel tried to trick God.\par But now they must accept their guilt.\par The Lord will break down their altars. {\cf2\super [98]} \par He will destroy their memorial stones. {\cf2\super [99]} \par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Their heart is divided and deceitful; now shall they be found guilty and suffer punishment. The Lord will smite and break down [the horns of] their altars; He will destroy their [idolatrous] pillars. American Standard Version (1901) Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he will destroy their pillars. Common English Bible Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their standing stones. Catholic Public Domain Version His heart has been divided, so now they will cross the divide. He will break apart their images; he will plunder their sanctuaries. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars. |
Elijah came to all the people. He said, “When will you people decide who to follow? If the Lord is the true God, then you should follow him. But if Baal [200] is the true God, then you should follow him!”
“Don’t worship the gods of those people. Don’t ever bow down to those gods. You must never live the way those people live. You must destroy their idols. [151] And you must break the stones that help them remember their gods. [152]
An evil man cheats people and takes their money. But a person that is fair and does right will get the real reward.
Those people don’t know what they are doing. They don’t understand! It is like their eyes are covered so they can’t see. Their hearts (minds) don’t try to understand.
Nebuchadnezzar will destroy the memorial stones {\cf2\super [351]} that are in the temple of the Sun God {\cf2\super [352]} in Egypt. And he will burn down the temples of the false gods of Egypt.’”
Why? Because I want to touch their heart. I want to show them I love them, even though they left me for their filthy idols.’
But the people in Gilead {\cf2\super [138]} have sinned. There are many terrible idols in that place. The people offer sacrifices to bulls at Gilgal. Those people have many altars. {\cf2\super [139]} There are rows and rows of altars—like the rows of dirt in a plowed field.
Samaria must be punished.\par Why? Because she turned against her God.\par The Israelites will be killed with swords.\par Their children will be torn to pieces.\par Their pregnant women will be ripped open.”\par
In the same way, the people of Israel will continue many days without a king or a leader. They will be without a sacrifice or a memorial stone. {\cf2\super [29]} They will be without an ephod {\cf2\super [30]} or a household god.
“Ephraim {\cf2\super [71]} mixes with the nations.\par Ephraim is like a cake\par that was not cooked on both sides.\par
I will destroy your high places. [445] I will cut down your incense [446] altars. [447] I will put your dead bodies on the dead bodies of your idols. [448] You will be very disgusting to me.
I will destroy your statues \{of false gods\}.\par I will pull down your stones for remembering those false gods.\par You will not worship the things\par that your hands have made.\par
go on their roofs {\cf2\super [2]} to worship the stars. {\cf2\super [3]} People will forget about those false priests. Some people say they worship me. Those people promised to worship me, but now they worship the false god Milcom. {\cf2\super [4]} So I will remove those people from that place.
The Lord All-Powerful says, “At that time, I will remove all the idols from the earth. People will not even remember their names. And I will remove the \{false\} prophets and unclean {\cf2\super [31]} spirits from the earth.
“No person can serve two masters at the same time. He will hate one master and love the other master. Or he will follow one master and refuse to follow the other master. So you cannot serve God and Money {\cf2\super [81]} at the same time.
“No servant can serve two masters at the same time. The servant will hate one master and love the other. Or he will be loyal to one and not care about the other. You cannot serve God and Money {\cf2\super [261]} at the same time.”
So you people are not faithful to God! You should know that loving the world is the same as hating God. So if a person wants to be a part {\cf2\super [18]} of the world, then he makes himself God’s enemy.
Don’t love this evil world or the things in it. If a person loves the world, the love of the Father (God) is not in that person.
But the next morning when the people of Ashdod got up, they found Dagon on the ground again! Dagon had fallen down before the Lord’s Holy Box. [58] This time, Dagon’s head and hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. [59] Only Dagon’s body was still in one piece.