2 Kings 17:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The Israelites secretly did things against the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And 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;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And 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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and prouoked ye LORDE their God, and dyd secretly the thinges that were not righte in the sighte of ye LORDE their God: namely in that they buylded them hye places in all cities, both in castels and stronge cities,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the children of Israel had done secretly things that were not vpright before the Lorde their God, & throughout all their cities had built hie places, both from the tower of the watch, to the defensed citie,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the children of Israel went about to hide those thinges that were not wel from the Lorde their God: And they buylt them hygh places in all their cities, both in the towres where they kept watch, and also in the strong townes:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and the sons of Israel do covertly things that `are' not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And 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;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And 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;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The Israelites said things about the LORD their God that were not right. They built high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 18:8 : 8 He struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.
  • Job 31:27 : 27 And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth.
  • Hos 12:11 : 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
  • Deut 13:6 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
  • Deut 27:15 : 15 Cursed be the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    81%

    10They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree.

    11There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 17:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods.

    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • Jer 17:2
    76%

    2While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 1 Kgs 14:23
    75%

    23For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

  • Isa 17:9
    73%

    9In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

  • Hos 8:14
    73%

    14For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces there.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

    17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    72%

    19Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made.

  • Judg 3:7
    72%

    7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • Hos 10:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: thorns and thistles shall grow on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, 'Cover us,' and to the hills, 'Fall on us.'

    9O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

  • Judg 2:11
    72%

    11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

  • Deut 17:4
    72%

    4and it is told to you, and you have heard of it and diligently inquired, and indeed it is true and certain that such an abomination has been committed in Israel,

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
    71%

    22The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them,

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    71%

    11Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    71%

    29However, every nation made gods of their own and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, each nation in the cities where they lived.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    71%

    32They feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.

  • Jer 3:6
    71%

    6The LORD also said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.

  • Jer 3:21
    71%

    21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Isa 2:15
    70%

    15And upon every high tower, and upon every fortified wall,

  • Josh 7:11
    70%

    11Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    70%

    35However, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

  • Jer 7:17
    70%

    17Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    70%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • Judg 10:6
    70%

    6And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and did not serve Him.

  • 2 Chr 29:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

    7They have also shut up the doors of the porch, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:34
    70%

    34To this day they continue practicing their former habits: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow his statutes, or his ordinances, or the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.

  • Jer 5:11
    70%

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • Deut 17:2
    69%

    2If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or woman who has done wickedness in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant,

  • Hos 9:9
    69%

    9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

  • Hos 10:2
    69%

    2Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he shall break down their altars, he shall ruin their images.

  • Jer 7:30
    69%

    30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Judg 8:34
    69%

    34And the children of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side:

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    69%

    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.

  • Mic 1:5
    69%

    5All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

  • 2 Chr 33:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

    3For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    69%

    13The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

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    69%

    30For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.

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    69%

    2The descendants of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

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    69%

    17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.

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    69%

    17Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • Josh 22:23
    69%

    23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer on it burnt offering or grain offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD Himself require it;

  • Jer 11:13
    69%

    13For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    69%

    3However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.