Verse 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.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Han bygde opp igjen offergjerdene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altere for Baal og laget en Ashera-påle, slik Ahab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hær og dyrket dem.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  For han gjenoppbygde de høye stedene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altere for Baal og laget en Ashera-påle, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han tilba alle himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk King James

  For han bygde opp igjen høye steder, som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, og han reiste altar for Baal, og lagde et hellig tre, slik som Ahab, kongen av Israel, gjorde. Han tilbad hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Han gjenoppbygde haugene som hans far Esekias hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altre til Ba’al, laget en Asjera-påle slik Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort, og tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Han gjenoppbygde de offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt, reiste altere for Baal, laget en Asjera som Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort, og tilba alle stjernehæren på himmelen 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 Baal og laget en lund, slik som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hærskare og tjente dem.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For han gjenreiste de høye stedene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, han reiste altere for Baal og anla en lund, slik som Ahab, Israels konge, gjorde; han tilba hele himmelens hærskare 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 Baal og laget en lund, slik som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hærskare og tjente dem.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Han gjenreiste offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt, og bygde altere for Ba’al og laget en Asjerapæl, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han bøyde seg og tilba alle himmelens hærskarer og dyrket dem.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Han gjenoppbygde de høye offerstedene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt, og han reiste altere for Baal og laget en Ashera-påle, slik som Ahab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort. Han bøyde seg for hele himmelens hær og tilbad dem.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi han byggede igjen de Høie, som Ezechias, hans Fader, havde fordærvet, og opreiste Baal Altere, og gjorde en Lund, ligesom Achab, Israels Konge, gjorde, og tilbad for al Himmelens Hær og tjente dem.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som hans far Hiskia hadde ødelagt; og han reiste altere for Baal og laget en lund, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort; og han tilbad hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt. Han reiste altere for Ba’al og laget en Asjera-støtte, som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort, og han tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt, og reiste altere for Ba’al. Han laget en avgudsstøtte som Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort, og tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde ødelagt. Han reiste også altere for Baal, og laget en Asjera, slik Akab, Israels konge, hadde gjort. Han tilba hele himmelens hær og tjente dem.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Han bygde opp igjen offerhaugene som Hiskia, hans far, hadde revet ned; han reiste altere for Ba'al og laget en Asjera, slik som Akab, kongen av Israel, hadde gjort; han tilba og tjente alle himmelens hærskarer.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and builded vp the hye places which his father Ezechias had destroyed, and sett vp Baals altares, and made groues (as Achab the kynge of Israel dyd) 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 destroyed: and he erected vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab King of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen and serued them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For he went and buylt vp the hygh places whiche Hezekia his father had destroyed, and he reared vp aulters for Baal, and made idol groues as dyd Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the hoast of heauen, and serued them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; 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 destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, 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 destroyed, and raiseth altars for Baal, and maketh a shrine, as did Ahab king of Israel, 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 destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he 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 destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, 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 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.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 17:16 : 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
• 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 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,
• 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.
• 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.
• 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
• 1 Kgs 18:26 : 26 And they took the bull which was given them, and prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
• 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.
• 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
• 2 Kgs 10:18-20 : 18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. 19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be missing: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whoever is missing, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
• 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God, is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
• 2 Kgs 23:4-5 : 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.
• 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?
• 2 Chr 33:3-5 : 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. 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.' 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images.
• Job 31:26 : 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
• Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.