He went up to the altar which he had made in Beit-El on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Yisra'el, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
Hosea 11:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Ba`alim, and burned incense to engraved images. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The more [the prophets] called to them, the more they went from them; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to the graven images. American Standard Version (1901) The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Common English Bible The more I called them, the further they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and they burned incense to idols. Catholic Public Domain Version They called them, and so they departed before their face. They offered victims to the Baals, and they sacrificed to graven images. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols. |
He went up to the altar which he had made in Beit-El on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Yisra'el, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Yisra'el to Mount Karmel, and the prophets of Ba`al four hundred fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, who eat at Izevel's table.
Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
Thus says the LORD of Armies, the God of Yisra'el: Go, and tell the men of Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words? says the LORD.
But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Elyon, he certainly won't exalt them.
I will visit on her the days of the Ba`alim, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,* says the LORD.
They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the prostitute, and your brides commit adultery.
Don't you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus says the LORD of Armies, 'Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;' but they did not hear, nor listen to me, says the LORD.
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
*Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
*You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
The children of Yisra'el again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba`alim, and the `Ashtarot, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Tzidon, and the gods of Mo'av, and the gods of the children of `Ammon, and the gods of the Pelishtim; and they forsook the LORD, and didn't serve him.
The children of Yisra'el did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Ba`alim and the Asherot.