Leviticus 26:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִשְׁמַדְתִּ֞י אֶת־בָּמֹֽתֵיכֶ֗ם וְהִכְרַתִּי֙ אֶת־חַמָּ֣נֵיכֶ֔ם וְנָֽתַתִּי֙ אֶת־פִּגְרֵיכֶ֔ם עַל־פִּגְרֵ֖י גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֑ם וְגָעֲלָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖י אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And wə-hišmaḏtî ʾet-bāmōṯêḵem and wə-hiḵrattî ʾet-ḥammānêḵem and wə-nāṯattî ʾet-piḡrêḵem upon ʿal-piḡrê gillûlêḵem and wə-ḡāʿălâ nap̄šî you ʾeṯḵem.

Grammar Details

• *wə-hišmaḏtî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will destroy
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *bāmōṯêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your high places
• *wə-hiḵrattî*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect 1st person singular - and I will cut off
• *ḥammānêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sun-pillars
• *wə-nāṯattî*: conjunction + Qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will put
• *piḡrêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your corpses
• *ʿal*: preposition - upon
• *piḡrê*: masculine plural construct - corpses of
• *gillûlêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your idols
• *wə-ḡāʿălâ*: conjunction + Qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular - and will abhor
• *nap̄šî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
• *ʾeṯḵem*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you

Word Meanings

• *hišmaḏtî*: destroy/annihilate/exterminate
• *bāmōṯêḵem*: high places/cult platforms
• *hiḵrattî*: cut off/cut down/destroy
• *ḥammānêḵem*: sun-pillars/incense altars
• *nāṯattî*: give/put/place
• *piḡrêḵem*: corpses/dead bodies
• *gillûlêḵem*: idols/images/dung-idols
• *ḡāʿălâ*: abhor/loathe/reject
• *nap̄šî*: my soul/life/self

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will destroy{H8045} your high places,{H1116} and cut down{H3772} your sun-images,{H2553} and cast{H5414} your dead bodies{H6297} upon the bodies{H6297} of your idols;{H1544} and my soul{H5315} shall abhor{H1602} you.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will destroy{H8045}{(H8689)} your high places{H1116}, and cut down{H3772}{(H8689)} your images{H2553}, and cast{H5414}{(H8804)} your carcases{H6297} upon the carcases{H6297} of your idols{H1544}, and my soul{H5315} shall abhor{H1602}{(H8804)} you.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And I will destroye youre alters bylt apon hye hylles, and ouerthrowe youre images, and cast youre carkasses apon the bodies of youre ydolles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And I wyl destroye youre hye altares, and rote out youre ymages, and wyll cast youre bodies vpon the bodies of youre Idols, and my soule shall abhorre you.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I will also destroy your hye places, & cut away your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the bodies of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I wyll destroy your hye places, and cut away your images, and cast your carkasses vpon ye bodyes of your idols, and my soule shall abhorre you.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I have destroyed your high places, and cut down your images, and have put your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and My soul hath loathed you;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 23:20 : 20 And he slew all the priests of the high places who were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
• Isa 27:9 : 9 By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, the groves and images shall not stand up.
• Ezek 6:3-6 : 3 And say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. 4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. 5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars. 6 In all your dwelling places, the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
• Ezek 6:13 : 13 Then shall you know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet aroma to all their idols.
• Jer 8:1-3 : 1 At that time, says the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth. 3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.
• Jer 14:19 : 19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!
• 2 Chr 14:3-5 : 3 For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves. 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to obey the law and the commandment. 5 He also removed the high places and the images from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.
• 2 Chr 23:17 : 17 Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
• 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now 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.
• 2 Chr 34:3-7 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and beaten the graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
• Ps 78:58-59 : 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their carved images. 59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel:
• Ps 89:38 : 38 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been furious with your anointed.
• Lev 20:23 : 23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
• Lev 26:11 : 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
• Lev 26:15 : 15 And if you shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhors my judgments, so that you will not do all my commandments, but that you break my covenant:
• 1 Kgs 13:2 : 2 And he cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus says the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you shall he offer the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and men's bones shall be burnt upon you.
• 2 Kgs 23:8 : 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places at the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
• 2 Kgs 23:16 : 16 As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs that were there on the mountain, and sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.