Deuteronomy 13:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־תִשְׁמַ֞ע בְּאַחַ֣ת עָרֶ֗יךָ אֲשֶׁר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֛ לָשֶׁ֥בֶת שָׁ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃

Transliteration

If-tišmaʿ in-one-of ʿārêkā which YHWH ʾĕlōhêkā nōtēn to-you lāšebet there lēʾmōr:

Grammar Details

• *tišmaʿ*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you hear
• *ʿārêkā*: noun, feminine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your cities
• *nōtēn*: qal participle, masculine singular - giving
• *lāšebet*: preposition lamed + qal infinitive construct - to dwell
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition lamed + qal infinitive construct - saying

Word Meanings

• *šāmaʿ*: hear/listen/perceive
• *ʿîr*: city/town
• *nātan*: give/put/set
• *yāšab*: sit/dwell/remain

Referenced Verses

• Deut 13:2 : 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them;
• Deut 13:6 : 6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
• Judg 19:22 : 22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
• Judg 20:13 : 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
• 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
• 1 Sam 25:17 : 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
• 2 Sam 16:7 : 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
• 2 Sam 20:1 : 1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
• 1 Kgs 21:10 : 10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.
• 1 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• 1 John 3:10 : 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• Jude 1:19 : 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
• 2 Kgs 17:21 : 21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
• 2 Chr 13:7 : 7 And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
• 2 Sam 23:6 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
• 1 Sam 25:25 : 25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
• 1 Sam 10:27 : 27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.