Verse 3

For 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Han gjenopprettet de kultstedene som hans far Hiskia hadde revet ned og reiste altere for Baalene. Han laget Asjera-stolper og tilbad hele himmelens hær.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For han bygde opp igjen haugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned. Han reiste altere for Baalene, laget lunder og tilbad hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk King James

  For han bygde opp de høye stedene som hans far Hiskia hadde brutt ned, og han reiste altarer til Baalim, laget helligdommer, tilba de himmelske maktene, og tjenestegjorde for dem.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned, reiste altere for Baal og lagde Asjera-støtter, og tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Han gjenreiste offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned. Han bygget altere for Baalene, laget Ashera-pæler, og tilbad hele himmelens hær og dyrket dem.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For han bygde opp igjen de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned, og han reiste altere for Baalene, laget lunder, tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For han gjenbygde de høye stedene som Hezekiah, hans far, hadde revet ned, og han reiste altere til Baalim, anlagde lunde, tilbad himmelens hærskarer og tjente dem.

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

  For han bygde opp igjen de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned, og han reiste altere for Baalene, laget lunder, tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Han gjenoppbygde offerhaugene som hans far Hiskia hadde revet ned, reiste altere for Baalene, laget Asjera-påler og tilba hele himmelens hærskare og dyrket dem.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, set up altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and worshipped all the stars of the sky and served them.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Han gjenoppbygde offerhaugene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, reiste altere for Baalene, laget Asjera-stolper og tilbad hele himmelens hærskare og dyrket dem.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi han byggede igjen de Høie, som Ezechias, hans Fader, havde nedbrudt, og opreiste Altere til Baalim, og gjorde Lunde, og tilbad for al Himmelens Hær og tjente dem.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For han bygde opp igjen de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned, og han reiste altere for Ba'alene, og lagde lundene, og tilba alle stjernehærenes himmelske hær, og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned; og han reiste altere for Ba'alene, og laget Asjera-staver, og tilba hele himmelens hær, og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som hans far Hiskia hadde revet ned, reiste altere for Ba'alene, lagde avgudsbilder og tilba himmelens hærskare og dyrket dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned; og han reiste altere for Baalene, lagde Ashera-stolper, tilba himmelens hær, og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som hans far Hiskia hadde revet ned, og han laget altere for Baalene, og trestolper, og tilba og tjente alle himmelens hærskarer.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and buylded the hye places, ( which his father Ezechies had broken downe) and set vp altares vnto Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoost of heauen, and serued them.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had broken downe: and he set vp altars for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoste of the heauen, and serued them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For he went to, and buylt the high places whiche Hezekia his father had broken downe: And he reared vp aulters for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father hath broken down, and raiseth altars for Baalim, and maketh shrines, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

• World English Bible (2000)

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 16:21 : 21 You shall not plant for yourself any grove of trees near to the altar of the LORD your God, which you shall make for yourself.
• 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.
• Deut 17:3 : 3 and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,
• 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 Kgs 23:5-6 : 5 And he removed 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 areas around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.
• 2 Chr 30:14 : 14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
• 2 Kgs 23:11 : 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the officer, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
• 2 Chr 28:2-4 : 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for Baalim. 3 Moreover, he burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
• 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.
• Judg 2:11-13 : 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
• 1 Kgs 14:23 : 23 For they also built for themselves high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
• 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Has not that same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense on it?
• Eccl 2:19 : 19 And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
• Eccl 9:18 : 18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
• Jer 8:2 : 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.
• Jer 17:2 : 2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
• Jer 19:13 : 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
• Zeph 1:5 : 5 And those that worship the host of heaven on the rooftops; and those that worship and that swear by the LORD, and also swear by Milcom;
• Acts 7:42 : 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?