Jeremiah 11:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For 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.

📖 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

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 Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, 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, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
• Jer 3:24 : 24 For shame hath devoured the labour 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 whom ye know not;
• Jer 19:5 : 5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with 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 there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
• 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 provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
• 2 Kgs 21:4-5 : 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD 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 the LORD.
• 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 door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel. 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.