Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Så dro hele folket i landet til Baals tempel og rev det ned. De knuste alterene og bildene grundig, og de drepte Matthan, Baals prest, foran alterene. Deretter satte presten vakter over Herrens hus.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hele folket i landet gikk til Ba'als hus og rev det ned. De brøt fullstendig ned hans altere og statuer, og drepte Mattan, Ba'als prest, foran alterene. Presten satte oppsynsmenn over Herrens hus.

• Norsk King James

  Alt folket i landet gikk inn i Baals hus og rev det ned. De knuste altarene og bildene fullstendig, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran altrene. Presten utpekte vakter over Herrens hus.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hele folket gikk så til Ba'als tempel, rev ned alterne og brøt fullstendig i stykker avgudsbilder. De drepte Mattan, presten til Ba'al, foran alteret. Presten Jojada satte også i stand tjenestene i Herrens hus.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Hele folket i landet gikk til Ba'als hus og rev det ned, de brøt ned alterne og bærebildene, og de drepte Natan, Ba'als prest, foran alterne. Presten satte voktere ved Herrens hus.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og hele folket i landet gikk inn i Baals hus og rev det ned, knuste hans altere og bilder fullstendig, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alteret. Presten satte da vakter over Herrens hus.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Hele folket i landet gikk inn i Baals hus og rev det ned; de ødela hans altere og statuer i grus, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterene. Presten utnevnte også offiserer over HERRENS hus.

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

  Og hele folket i landet gikk inn i Baals hus og rev det ned, knuste hans altere og bilder fullstendig, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alteret. Presten satte da vakter over Herrens hus.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Så gikk alt folket i landet til Baal-tempelet og rev det ned. De knuste fullstendig Baals altere og bilder, og Mattan, Baals prest, drepte de foran alterene. Jojada satte voktere over Herrens hus.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  The people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, in front of the altars. Then Jehoiada the priest stationed guards at the temple of the LORD.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hele folket gikk inn i Baals hus og rev det ned; de knuste hans altere og bilder fullstendig, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran altrene. Presten Jojada satte voktere ved Herrens hus.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Da kom alt Folket af Landet ind i Baals Huus, og de nedbrøde hans Altere, og hans Billeder sønderbrøde de aldeles, og sloge Matthan, Baals Præst, ihjel lige for Alterne; men Præsten beskikkede Embederne i Herrens Huus.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hele folket i landet gikk inn i Baals hus og rev det ned; de slo i stykker hans altere og bilder fullstendig, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterene. Deretter satte presten vakter over Herrens hus.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Folket i landet gikk til Baals hus og rev det ned; de knuste fullstendig hans altere og bilder, og drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran altrene. Presten satte vakter over Herrens hus.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hele folket i landet går inn i Ba'als hus og river det ned. De bryter i stykker alle hans altere og bilder grundig, og Mattan, Ba'als prest, dreper de foran alterne; og presten setter tilsynsmenn over Herrens hus.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og alt folket i landet gikk til Baals hus og rev det ned; de brøt i stykker hans altere og bilder, og de drepte Mattan, Baals prest, foran alterne. Så satte presten vakter over Herrens hus.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Da gikk hele folket til Baals hus og rev det ned. De ødela alterne og bildene fullstendig, og Mattan, Baals prest, drepte de foran alterne. Og presten satte voktere over Herrens hus.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Then wente all the people of the londe into the house of Baal, and brake downe his altares, and destroyed his ymages right well. And Mathan the prest of Baal slewe they before the altare: And the prest appoynted the officers in the house of the LORDE,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then all the people of the lande went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it with his altars, and his images brake they downe courageously, and slewe Mattan the Priest of Baal before the altars: and the Priest set a garde ouer the house of the Lord.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And all the people of the lande went into the house of Baal, and destroyed it, his aulters also, and his images brake they downe lustylie, and slue Mathan the priest of Baal before the aulters: And the priest set watch ouer the house of the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And all the people of the land go in to the house of Baal, and break it down, its altars and its images they have thoroughly broken, and Mattan priest of Baal they have slain before the altars; and the priest setteth inspectors over the house of Jehovah,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed [ officers over the house of Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house.

• World English Bible (2000)

  All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  All the people of the land went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols to bits. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altar. Jehoiada the priest then placed guards at the LORD’s temple.

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• 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 10:26 : 26 And they brought out the images from the house of Baal, and burned them.
• 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.
• Deut 13:5 : 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.
• Deut 13:9 : 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.
• 2 Kgs 9:25-28 : 25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Pick him up, and throw him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD uttered this oracle against him; 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says the LORD; and I will pay you back in this plot, says the LORD. Now, therefore, take and throw him into the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD. 27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu pursued him, and said, Strike him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there. 28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.
• Exod 32:20 : 20 He took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
• 2 Kgs 23:4-6 : 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 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 Kgs 23:10 : 10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire to Molech.
• 2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 And he smashed the images, cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
• 2 Chr 21:17 : 17 They invaded Judah, breached it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house, along with his sons and his wives, so there was not a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
• 2 Chr 23:17-20 : 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. 18 Also Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had assigned in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and singing, as was ordained by David. 19 And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD, that no one who was unclean in any way should enter. 20 And he took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
• 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.