Verse 3

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Han bygde opp igjen offergjerdene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altere for Baal og laget en Ashera-påle, slik Ahab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hær og dyrket dem.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For han gjenoppbygde de høye stedene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altere for Baal og laget en Ashera-påle, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han tilba alle himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk King James

  For han bygde opp igjen høye steder, som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, og han reiste altar for Baal, og lagde et hellig tre, slik som Ahab, kongen av Israel, gjorde. Han tilbad hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Han gjenoppbygde haugene som hans far Esekias hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altre til Ba’al, laget en Asjera-påle slik Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort, og tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Han gjenoppbygde de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt, reiste altere for Baal, laget en Asjera som Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort, og tilba alle stjernehæren på himmelen og dyrket dem.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For han bygde opp igjen de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned, og han reiste altere for Baal og laget en lund, slik som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hærskare og tjente dem.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For han gjenreiste de høye stedene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, han reiste altere for Baal og anla en lund, slik som Ahab, Israels konge, gjorde; han tilba hele himmelens hærskare og tjente dem.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For han bygde opp igjen de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned, og han reiste altere for Baal og laget en lund, slik som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hærskare og tjente dem.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Han gjenreiste offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt, og bygde altere for Ba’al og laget en Asjerapæl, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han bøyde seg og tilba alle himmelens hærskarer og dyrket dem.

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Han gjenoppbygde de høye offerstedene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, og han reiste altere for Baal og laget en Ashera-påle, slik som Ahab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort. Han bøyde seg for hele himmelens hær og tilbad dem.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi han byggede igjen de Høie, som Ezechias, hans Fader, havde fordærvet, og opreiste Baal Altere, og gjorde en Lund, ligesom Achab, Israels Konge, gjorde, og tilbad for al Himmelens Hær og tjente dem.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt; og han reiste altere for Baal og laget en lund, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort; og han tilbad hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• KJV1611 - Moderne engelsk

  For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altere for Ba’al og laget en Asjera-støtte, som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort, og han tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt, og reiste altere for Ba’al. Han laget en avgudsstøtte som Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort, og tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt. Han reiste også altere for Baal, og laget en Asjera, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned; han reiste altere for Ba'al og laget en Asjera, slik som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort; han tilba og tjente alle himmelens hærskarer.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and builded vp the hye places which his father Ezechias had destroyed, and sett vp Baals altares, and made groues (as Achab the kynge of Israel dyd) and worshipped all the hoost of heauen, and serued them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed: and he erected vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab King of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen and serued them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For he went and buylt vp the hygh places whiche Hezekia his father had destroyed, and he reared vp aulters for Baal, and made idol groues as dyd Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father destroyed, and raiseth altars for Baal, and maketh a shrine, as did Ahab king of Israel, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:16 : 16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
• 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.
• Deut 17:3 : 3 and they go and worship other gods, bowing down to them, or to the sun, the moon, or the stars in the sky, which I have not commanded,
• 1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 As if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he also married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole, and he did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 And be careful not to lift your eyes toward the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars—all the host of heaven—and be led astray to bow down to them and worship them, things the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
• 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But the people said nothing.
• 1 Kgs 18:26 : 26 So they took the bull that was given to them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, 'O Baal, answer us!' But there was no response, no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
• 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab's daughter. He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 He walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, like the house of Ahab had done, since he was related by marriage to the house of Ahab.
• 2 Kgs 10:18-20 : 18 Then Jehu gathered all the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much. 19 Now summon all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers, and all his priests. Let no one fail to come, for I am going to hold a great sacrifice to Baal. Anyone who fails to come will not live." But Jehu was acting deceptively in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal. 20 Jehu commanded, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they announced it.
• 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
• 2 Kgs 23:4-5 : 4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second rank, and the gatekeepers to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the objects made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and scattered their ashes on the graves of the people. 5 He also removed the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah, those who burned incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas around Jerusalem. He removed those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon, the constellations, and all the host of heaven.
• 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Hasn't the same Hezekiah removed his high places and altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship before one altar and burn sacrifices on it'?
• 2 Chr 33:3-5 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them. 4 He built altars in the temple of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.' 5 He built altars to all the stars of the sky in both courtyards of the temple of the LORD.
• 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols.
• Job 31:26 : 26 if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
• Mic 6:16 : 16 You have followed the statutes of Omri and all the practices of the house of Ahab; you have walked in their counsels. Therefore, I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of scorn; you will bear the reproach of My people.