Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Hele folket gikk til Baals tempel og rev det ned. De knuste alterene og bildene hans i stykker og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterene.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Så gikk hele folket til Baals hus og rev det ned og brøt hans altere og bilder i stykker og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterne.

• Norsk King James

  Så gikk hele folket til Baals hus og rev det ned, og brøt ned hans altere og bilder i biter, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterene.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Deretter gikk hele folket inn i Baals tempel, rev det ned og ødela alterne og statuene hans, og de drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterne.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Hele folket gikk til Ba'als tempel og rev det ned. Også alterene og bildene hans knuste de, og de drepte Mattan, Ba'als prest, foran alterene.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Da gikk hele folket til Baals hus og rev det ned, knuste hans altere og bildene, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterne.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Så dro hele folket til Baalens hus, rev det ned, ødela hans altere og store avgudsbilder, og drepte Mattan, Baalens prest, foran alterene.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Da gikk hele folket til Baals hus og rev det ned, knuste hans altere og bildene, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterne.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hele folket gikk til Ba'als hus og rev det ned. De knuste hans altere og bilder og drepte Matan, Ba'als prest, foran alterne.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "2 Chronicles.23.17", "source": "וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ כָל־הָעָ֤ם בֵּית־הַבַּ֙עַל֙ וַֽיִּתְּצֻ֔הוּ וְאֶת־מִזְבְּחֹתָ֥יו וְאֶת־צְלָמָ֖יו שִׁבֵּ֑רוּ וְאֵ֗ת מַתָּן֙ כֹּהֵ֣ן הַבַּ֔עַל הָרְג֖וּ לִפְנֵ֥י הַֽמִּזְבְּחֽוֹת׃", "text": "*wə-yāḇōʾû* all-the *ʿām* *bêṯ*-the *Baʿal* *wə-yittəṣuhû* and *ʾeṯ*-*mizbəḥōṯāyw* and *ʾeṯ*-*ṣəlāmāyw* *šibbērû* and *ʾēṯ* *Mattān* *kōhēn* the *Baʿal* *hārḡû* before the *mizbəḥôṯ*.", "grammar": { "*wə-yāḇōʾû*": "Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural - and they came", "*ʿām*": "noun, masculine singular - people", "*bêṯ*": "noun, masculine singular construct - house of", "*Baʿal*": "proper noun, masculine singular - Baal", "*wə-yittəṣuhû*": "Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - and they broke it down", "*mizbəḥōṯāyw*": "noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his altars", "*ṣəlāmāyw*": "noun, masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his images", "*šibbērû*": "Piel perfect, 3rd plural - they shattered", "*Mattān*": "proper noun, masculine singular - Mattan", "*kōhēn*": "noun, masculine singular construct - priest of", "*hārḡû*": "Qal perfect, 3rd plural - they killed", "*mizbəḥôṯ*": "noun, masculine plural - altars" }, "variants": { "*yāḇōʾû*": "came/entered/arrived", "*yittəṣuhû*": "broke it down/demolished it/tore it down", "*mizbəḥōṯāyw*": "his altars/his places of sacrifice", "*ṣəlāmāyw*": "his images/his idols/his statues", "*šibbērû*": "shattered/broke in pieces/smashed", "*hārḡû*": "killed/slew/murdered" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Så gikk alt folket til Ba’als hus og rev det ned. De knuste hans altere og hans bilder og drepte Ba’als prest Mattan foran alterne.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Siden gik alt Folket ind i Baals Huus og nedbrøde det, og sønderbrøde hans Altere og hans Billeder; og de ihjelsloge Matthan, Baals Præst, for Alterne.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Så gikk hele folket til Baals hus og rev det ned. De ødela hans altere og bilder, og de drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterene.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hele folket gikk til Baals hus, rev det ned, knuste hans altere og bilder i stykker, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterne.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Alt folket gikk til Baals hus og rev det ned, og de brøt ned hans alter og bilder og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alteret.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og hele folket gikk til Baals hus og rev det ned, og brøt hans altere og bilder i stykker, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterene.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Da gikk alle folket til Baals hus og rev det ned, og dets altere og bilder ble knust; og Mattan, Baals prest, ble drept foran alterene.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  The wete all the people in to the house of Baal, and destroyed it, & brake downe his altares & ymages, & slewe Mathan the prest of Baal before the altare.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And all the people went to the house of Baal, and destroyed, and brake his altars and his images, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And all the people went to the house of Baal, and destroyed it, and brake his aulters and his images, and slue Mathan the priest of Baal before the aulters.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and all the people enter the house of Baal, and break it down, yea, his altars and his images they have broken, and Mattan priest of Baal they have slain before the altars.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.

• World English Bible (2000)

  All the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  All the people went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 18:40 : 40 And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
• 2 Kgs 10:25-28 : 25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come out. And they struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal. 26 And they brought out the images from the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel.
• 2 Kgs 11:18-19 : 18 All the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; they thoroughly broke his altars and images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. 19 He took the commanders over hundreds, the captains, the guard, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD; they came by way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
• 2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, broke the images, cut down the groves, and broke into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and he called it Nehushtan.
• 2 Chr 34:4 : 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.
• 2 Chr 34:7 : 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.
• Isa 2:18 : 18 And the idols He shall utterly abolish.
• Zech 13:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and also, I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land. 3 And it shall come to pass that when anyone continues to prophesy, then his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD; and his father and his mother who gave birth to him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
• Deut 12:3 : 3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.
• Deut 13:5-9 : 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he has spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to push you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall put away the evil from among you. 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; 7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; 8 You shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare him, neither shall you conceal him: 9 But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.