1 Kings 14:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתָּ֣רַע לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת מִכֹּ֖ל אֲשֶׁר־הָי֣וּ לְפָנֶ֑יךָ וַתֵּ֡לֶךְ וַתַּעֲשֶׂה־לְּךָ֩ אֱלֹהִ֨ים אֲחֵרִ֤ים וּמַסֵּכוֹת֙ לְהַכְעִיסֵ֔נִי וְאֹתִ֥י הִשְׁלַ֖כְתָּ אַחֲרֵ֥י גַוֶּֽךָ׃

Transliteration

wə-tāraʿ to-ʿăśôt from-all who-hāyû to-pānêkā wə-tēlek wə-taʿăśeh-for-you ʾĕlōhîm ʾăḥērîm û-massēkôt to-hakʿîsēnî wə-[direct object marker]-me hišlaktā ʾaḥărê gawwekā

Grammar Details

• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *tāraʿ*: verb, hiphil imperfect with waw consecutive, 2nd masculine singular - you did evil
• *ʿăśôt*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to do
• *hāyû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they were
• *pānêkā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your face/before you
• *tēlek*: verb, qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 2nd masculine singular - you went
• *taʿăśeh*: verb, qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 2nd masculine singular - you made
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - gods
• *ʾăḥērîm*: adjective, masculine plural - other
• *massēkôt*: noun, feminine plural - molten images/idols
• *hakʿîsēnî*: verb, hiphil infinitive construct with 1st singular suffix - to provoke me
• *hišlaktā*: verb, hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you cast
• *ʾaḥărê*: preposition - behind
• *gawwekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your back

Word Meanings

• *tāraʿ*: did evil/did worse/acted wickedly
• *massēkôt*: molten images/cast idols/metal statues
• *hakʿîsēnî*: to provoke me to anger/to vex me
• *hišlaktā*: cast/threw/tossed

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people,“It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
• Neh 9:26 : 26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 For you hate instruction and reject my words.
• 2 Chr 11:15 : 15 Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.
• Ezek 23:35 : 35 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, you must bear now the punishment for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”
• Exod 34:17 : 17 You must not make yourselves molten gods.
• Deut 9:8-9 : 8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you. 9 When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained there forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. 10 The LORD gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger of God, and on them was everything he said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly. 11 Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 12 And he said to me,“Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.” 13 Moreover, he said to me,“I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot! 14 Stand aside and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.” 15 So I turned and went down the mountain while it was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. 16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the LORD your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf; you had quickly turned aside from the way he had commanded you!
• Deut 9:24 : 24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!
• Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols. 17 They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.
• Deut 32:21 : 21 They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.
• Judg 5:8 : 8 God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.
• 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
• 2 Chr 33:6 : 6 He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the LORD and angered him.
• Ps 78:40 : 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!
• Ps 78:56 : 56 Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.
• Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol. 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
• Ps 106:29 : 29 They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.
• Ps 115:4-8 : 4 Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made. 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see, 6 ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell, 7 hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats. 8 Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
• Isa 44:9-9 : 9 All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame. 10 Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless? 11 Look, all his associates will be put to shame; the craftsmen are mere humans. Let them all assemble and take their stand! They will panic and be put to shame. 12 A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired. 13 A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine. 14 He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow. 15 A man uses it to make a fire; he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. 16 Half of it he burns in the fire– over that half he cooks meat; he roasts a meal and fills himself. Yes, he warms himself and says,‘Ah! I am warm as I look at the fire.’ 17 With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’ 18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern. 19 No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves:‘I burned half of it in the fire– yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’ 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
• Jer 7:9-9 : 9 You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known. 10 Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say,“We are safe!” You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!
• Jer 10:14-16 : 14 All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols. 15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed. 16 The LORD, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. His name is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.”
• Ezek 8:3 : 3 He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.
• Ezek 8:17 : 17 He said to me,“Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!
• 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.
• 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”
• 1 Kgs 14:22 : 22 Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.
• 1 Kgs 15:34 : 34 He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 16:31 : 31 As if following in the sinful footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat were not bad enough, he married Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians. Then he worshiped and bowed to Baal.
• 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
• 2 Kgs 23:26 : 26 Yet the LORD’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.