Verse 3

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Han fulgte i Israels kongers fotspor og ofret til og med sin sønn i ilden, på samme måte som de avskyelige skikkene til de folkeslagene som Herren hadde drevet ut for israelittene.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Men han vandret på Israels kongers vei, ja, han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, etter hedningskikken, som Herren hadde drevet ut for Israels barn.

• Norsk King James

  Men han fulgte veiene til Israels konger og lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ild, i samsvar med de skrekkelige skikkene som folkene praktiserte, og som Herren hadde støtt ut foran Israels barn.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  I stedet fulgte han i fotsporene til kongene i Israel, og han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i tråd med de avskyelige skikkene til de folkene som Herren hadde drevet ut for Israels barn.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Han fulgte i Israels kongers fotspor, og han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i tråd med de avskyelige skikkene til folkeslagene som Herren hadde drevet bort for Israels barn.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Men han fulgte i Israels kongers fotspor, ja, han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i samsvar med de avskyelige skikkene til de folkene Herren hadde jaget bort foran Israels barn.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Han fulgte imidlertid israelittiske kongers vei, og lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i samsvar med hedningenes grusomheter, som Herren hadde forvist for Israels barn.

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

  Men han fulgte i Israels kongers fotspor, ja, han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i samsvar med de avskyelige skikkene til de folkene Herren hadde jaget bort foran Israels barn.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Han fulgte Israels kongers vei og lot også sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, etter styggedommene til de folkeslag som Herren hadde drevet ut foran Israels barn.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Han fulgte i Israels kongers fotspor, og til og med sin egen sønn ofret han i ilden, etter skikkene til de hedenske folkene som Herren hadde drevet ut foran Israels folk.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men han vandrede i Israels Kongers Vei; tilmed lod han sin Søn gaae igjennem Ilden efter Hedningernes Vederstyggeligheder, hvilke Herren havde fordrevet for Israels Børns Ansigt.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  I stedet fulgte han de samme veiene som kongene i Israel. Ja, han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i samsvar med de motbydelige skikkene til de folkeslagene Herren hadde jaget bort foran Israels barn.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Han fulgte derimot i Israels kongers fotspor, ja, han lot også sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, etter de avskyelige skikkene til de folkene som Herren hadde drevet bort for Israels barn.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Han fulgte i kongene av Israels fotspor, og til og med sin sønn ofret han i ilden, etter de motbydelige skikkene til de folkene som Herren hadde drevet ut for Israels barn.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men han fulgte i Israels kongers spor. Han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, i henhold til de avskyelige skikkene hos de folkene som Herren hadde drevet bort for Israels barn.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men han fulgte i Israels kongers fotspor, og han lot til og med sin sønn gå gjennom ilden, etterlignende de motbydelige praksisene til de folkene som Herren hadde drevet ut for Israels barn.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  for he walked in the waye of the kynges of Israel, Yee and caused his sonne to go thorow the fyre, after the maner of the abhominacions of the Heythen, whom the LORDE droue awaye before the childre of Israel.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But walked in the way of ye kings of Israel, yea, and made his sonne to go through the fire, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But walked in the way of the kinges of Israel, yea and made his sonnes to go through the fire after the abhominations of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, and also his son he hath caused to pass over into fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 12:31 : 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
• Lev 18:21 : 21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 21:2 : 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 2 Kgs 21:11 : 11 'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done more wickedly than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols:
• Ps 106:37-38 : 37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
• 2 Kgs 17:17 : 17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• Jer 32:35 : 35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
• Ezek 16:21 : 21 That you have slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
• Ezek 16:47 : 47 Yet you have not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
• Ezek 20:26 : 26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, so that they might know that I am the LORD.
• Ezek 20:31 : 31 For when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, you pollute yourselves with all your idols, even to this day: and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.
• 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 Chr 22:3 : 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.
• 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 Chr 33:2 : 2 But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
• 2 Chr 33:6 : 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
• Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
• 2 Kgs 21:6 : 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
• Lev 20:2 : 2 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech, he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
• Deut 18:10 : 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
• 1 Kgs 12:28-30 : 28 Therefore the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before one, even as far as Dan.
• 1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 And there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 And as if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him. 32 He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.
• 1 Kgs 21:25-26 : 25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up. 26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 22:52-53 : 52 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: 53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
• 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.