Jeremiah 11:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For 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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֚י מִסְפַּ֣ר עָרֶ֔יךָ הָי֥וּ אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ יְהוּדָ֑ה וּמִסְפַּ֞ר חֻצ֣וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם שַׂמְתֶּ֤ם מִזְבְּחוֹת֙ לַבֹּ֔שֶׁת מִזְבְּח֖וֹת לְקַטֵּ֥ר לַבָּֽעַל׃

Transliteration

For mispar ʿāreykā hāyû ʾĕlōheykā yĕhûdāh, and-mispar ḥuṣôt yĕrûšālaim śamtem mizbĕḥôt to-bōšet, mizbĕḥôt to-qattēr to-baʿal.

Grammar Details

*mispar*: noun, masculine singular construct - number of
*ʿāreykā*: noun, feminine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your cities
*hāyû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they were
*ʾĕlōheykā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your gods
*yĕhûdāh*: proper noun - Judah
*ḥuṣôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - streets of
*yĕrûšālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
*śamtem*: Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you set up
*mizbĕḥôt*: noun, masculine plural - altars
*bōšet*: noun, feminine singular - shameful thing
*qattēr*: Piel infinitive construct - to burn incense
*baʿal*: proper noun - Baal

Word Meanings

*mispar*: number/amount/quantity
*hāyû*: they were/have become/exist
*bōšet*: shameful thing/shame/disgrace (euphemism for Baal)
*qattēr*: to burn incense/offer sacrifice/make offerings

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Jer 2:28 : 28 But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.
Jer 3:1-2 : 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Jer 3:24 : 24 But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Jer 7:9 : 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,
Jer 19:5 : 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
Jer 32:35 : 35 And 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.
Hos 12:11 : 11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
Isa 2:8 : 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.
2 Kgs 23:4-5 : 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el. 5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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