2 Kings 17:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְקַטְּרוּ־שָׁם֙ בְּכָל־בָּמ֔וֹת כַּגּוֹיִ֕ם אֲשֶׁר־הֶגְלָ֥ה יְהוָ֖ה מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם וַֽיַּעֲשׂוּ֙ דְּבָרִ֣ים רָעִ֔ים לְהַכְעִ֖יס אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-yəqaṭṭərū-there in-all-bāmōt like-the-gōyim ʾăsher-heglāh YHWH from-before-them, wə-yaʿăsū dəbārîm rāʿîm to-hakʿîs ʾet-YHWH.

Grammar Details

*wə-yəqaṭṭərū*: piel imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd common plural - they burned incense
*shām*: adverb - there
*bə-kol-bāmōt*: preposition with construct and noun - in all high places
*ka-gōyim*: preposition with noun - like the nations
*ʾăsher*: relative pronoun - whom
*heglāh*: hiphil perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he exiled/removed
*YHWH*: divine name - YHWH
*mi-pənêhem*: preposition with construct and 3rd masculine plural suffix - from before them
*wə-yaʿăsū*: qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 3rd common plural - they did
*dəbārîm*: noun, masculine plural - things
*rāʿîm*: adjective, masculine plural - evil
*lə-hakʿîs*: preposition with hiphil infinitive construct - to provoke to anger
*ʾet-YHWH*: direct object marker with divine name - YHWH

Word Meanings

*yəqaṭṭərū*: burned incense/offered sacrifices
*bāmōt*: high places/shrines
*heglāh*: exiled/removed/carried away
*dəbārîm rāʿîm*: evil things/wicked deeds
*hakʿîs*: provoke to anger/vex/irritate

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 13:1 : 1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Jehovah unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chr 28:25 : 25 And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
Ps 78:56-58 : 56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies; 57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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2 Kgs 17:12
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12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kgs 17:16-18
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16And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
18Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kgs 17:8-10
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83%
8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
9And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
10and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;
2 Kgs 22:17
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17Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
2 Chr 28:25
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25And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
Jer 44:3
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3because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.
Ps 78:58
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58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
2 Chr 34:25
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25Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.
1 Kgs 14:22-23
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22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
23For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
2 Chr 28:3-4
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3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.
4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Ezek 20:28
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28For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
2 Chr 24:18
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18And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
Jer 11:17
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17For Jehovah of hosts, who planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.
Judg 2:12
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12and they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger.
Jer 17:2
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2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
2 Kgs 12:3
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3Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kgs 17:31-33
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31and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
32So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
33They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.
Jer 1:16
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16And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
Deut 32:16
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16They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
Jer 11:13
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13For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
2 Kgs 23:19
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19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Jehovah] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
2 Kgs 15:4
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4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
1 Kgs 11:7
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7Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Deut 12:31
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31Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.
Jer 44:8
75%
8in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 44:5
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5But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
Jer 7:18
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18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Hos 11:2
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2The more [the prophets] called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Isa 65:3
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3a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
2 Kgs 16:4
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4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chr 21:11
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11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.
2 Kgs 23:15
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15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
Jer 19:13
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13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.
2 Kgs 17:29
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29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Jer 32:35
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35And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
2 Chr 29:7
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7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
Jer 32:30
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30For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.
2 Kgs 21:11
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11Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;
Jer 19:4
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4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
1 Kgs 14:9
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9but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
Isa 57:5
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5ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
2 Chr 36:14
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14Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.