Judges 2:13 - New Revised Standard Version They abandoned the Lord, and worshiped Baal and the Astartes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they forsook the Lord and served Baal [the god worshiped by the Canaanites] and the Ashtaroth [female deities such as Ashtoreth and Asherah]. American Standard Version (1901) And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. Common English Bible They went away from the LORD and served Baal and the Astartes. Catholic Public Domain Version forsaking him, and serving Baal and Ashtaroth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth. |
This is because he has forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.
For Solomon followed Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
The king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem
and he made offerings in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his sons pass through fire, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had pulled down, and erected altars to the Baals, made sacred poles, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord the God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore he has brought all this calamity upon them.’ ”
then you shall say to them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law;
For long ago you broke your yoke and burst your bonds, and you said, “I will not serve!” On every high hill and under every green tree you sprawled and played the whore.
Thus Israel yoked itself to the Baal of Peor, and the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel.
Indeed, even though there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as in fact there are many gods and many lords—
The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, worshiping the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they abandoned the Lord, and did not worship him.
Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and worshiped the Baals;
The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God, and worshiping the Baals and the Asherahs.
Then they cried to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served the Baals and the Astartes; but now rescue us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.’
They put his armor in the temple of Astarte; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”