2 Kings 17:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD 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 the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
2 Chr 28:25 : 25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
Ps 78:56-58 : 56 Yet they tempted{H8762)} and provoked{H8686)} the most high God, and kept{H8804)} not his testimonies: 57 But turned back{H8735)}, and dealt unfaithfully{H8799)} like their fathers: they were turned aside{H8738)} like a deceitful bow. 58 For they provoked him to anger{H8686)} with their high places, and moved him to jealousy{H8686)} with their graven images.
Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own 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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12For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
2 Kgs 17:16-18
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16And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, 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 evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
18Therefore the LORD 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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8And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10And they set them up images and groves in 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 works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
2 Chr 28:25
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25And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD 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, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.
Ps 78:58
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58For they provoked him to anger{H8686)} with their high places, and moved him to jealousy{H8686)} 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 my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
1 Kgs 14:22-23
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22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
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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, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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Ezek 20:28
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28For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
2 Chr 24:18
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Jer 11:17
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17For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
Judg 2:12
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12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
Jer 17:2
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2 Kgs 12:3
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2 Kgs 17:31-33
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31And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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Jer 1:16
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16And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who 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 provoked 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 were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that 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 the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
2 Kgs 15:4
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4Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
1 Kgs 11:7
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Deut 12:31
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31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Jer 44:8
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8In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 44:5
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Jer 7:18
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18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their 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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2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
Isa 65:3
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3A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
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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2 Kgs 23:15
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Jer 19:13
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13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of 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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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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2 Kgs 21:11
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Jer 19:4
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2 Chr 36:14
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14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.