Verse 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?

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Da vendte Gud seg bort og ga dem over til å tjene himmelens hær; som skrevet står i profetenes bok: 'O hus av Israel, har dere i førti år i ørkenen ofret slaktede dyr og offer til meg?'

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Men Gud vendte seg bort og lot dem tjene himmelens hær; som det står skrevet i profetenes bok: "Ofret dere ikke slaktoffer og offer til meg i de førti årene dere var i ørkenen, Israels hus?"

• Norsk King James

  Da vendte Gud seg bort, og ga dem opp til å tilbe himmelens hær; slik det er skrevet i profetens bok: O Israels hus, har dere ofret til meg slaktede dyr og ofre i løpet av førti år i ørkenen?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Så vendte Gud seg bort fra dem og lot dem tilbe himmelens hær, som det står skrevet i profetenes bok: Var det meg dere brakte slaktoffer og andre offer i ørkenen, Israels hus, gjennom førti år?

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Da vendte Gud seg bort og overgav dem til å tjene himmelens hærskarer; som det er skrevet i profetenes bok: Har dere ofret dyr og gaver til meg i førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Men Gud vendte seg bort og lot dem tjene himmelens hær, slik det står skrevet i profetenes bok: Ble det meg dere ofret dyr og slaktet i førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Da vendte Gud seg bort og overga dem til å tilbe himmelens hærskare, slik det er skrevet i profetenes bok: Dere av Israels hus, har dere ofret slakt og offergaver til meg i de førti årene i ørkenen?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Da vendte Gud sin side og lot dem tilbe himmelens hær, slik det står skrevet i profetenes bok: 'Oi, Israels hus, har dere ofret meg slaktede dyr og ofre i ørkenen i førti år?'

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

  Da vendte Gud seg bort og overga dem til å tilbe himmelens hærskare, slik det er skrevet i profetenes bok: Dere av Israels hus, har dere ofret slakt og offergaver til meg i de førti årene i ørkenen?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Men Gud vendte seg bort og overgav dem til å tilbe himmelens hær, slik det står skrevet i profetenes bok: 'Var det til meg dere bar frem offer og slakt i førti år i ødemarken, Israels hus?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Da vendte Gud seg bort og overga dem til å dyrke himmelens hær, slik det står skrevet i profetenes bok: 'Frembar dere offer og slaktoffer for meg i førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Men Gud vendte sig (fra dem) og gav dem hen at tjene Himmelens Hær, saasom skrevet er i Propheternes Bog: Mon I, Israels Huus! have offret mig Slagtoffere og (andre) Offere i fyrretyve Aar i Ørkenen?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and srifices by the spe of forty years in the wilderness?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Da vendte Gud seg bort og overgav dem til å tilbe himmelens hær. Som det står skrevet i profetenes bok: Har dere ofret meg slaktede dyr og ofre i førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Men Gud vendte seg bort og overgav dem til å tjene himmelens hærskarer, som det står skrevet i profetenes bok: 'Brakte dere meg noen gang ofre og gaver i de førti årene i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Gud vendte seg bort fra dem og overga dem til å tilbe himmelens hær, som det står skrevet i profetenes bok:’ O Israel, ofret dere slaktede offer og gaver til meg i førti år i ørkenen?

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Men Gud vendte seg fra dem og overlot dem til å tjene himmelens hær, slik det står skrevet i profetenes bok: Brakte dere meg slaktoffer og gaver de førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Men Gud vendte seg bort fra dem og lot dem tilbe himmelens hær, som det er skrevet i profetenes bok: Bar dere frem dyreoffer og matoffer til meg i førti år i ørkenen, Israels hus?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Then God turned him selfe and gave them vp that they shuld worship the starres of the skye as it is written in the boke of the prophetes. O ye of ye housse of Israel gave ye to me sacrefices and meate offerynges by the space of xl. yeares in the wildernes?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But God turned himselfe, & gaue them vp, so that they worshipped the hooste of heaue, as it is wrytten in the boke of the prophetes: O ye house of Israel, gaue ye me sacrifices and catel those fortye yeares in the wyldernesse?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then God turned himselfe away, and gaue them vp to serue the host of heauen, as it is written in the booke of the Prophets, O house of Israel, haue ye offred to me slaine beasts and sacrifices by the space of fourtie yeres in the wildernes?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Then God turned hym selfe away, & gaue them vp to worship the hoast of heauen, as it is written in ye booke of the prophetes: O ye house of Israel, haue ye offered to me slayne beastes, and sacrifices, by the space of fourtie yeres in the wyldernesse?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices [by the space of] forty years in the wilderness?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

• World English Bible (2000)

  But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD; Go, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me: but pollute my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
• Amos 5:25-26 : 25 Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
• Josh 24:20 : 20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after he has done you good.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Isa 63:10 : 10 But they rebelled, and grieved his Holy Spirit: therefore he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
• Isa 66:4 : 4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none answered; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did evil before my eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight.
• 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,
• Job 31:26-28 : 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand: 28 This also would be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied the God above.
• Ps 81:11-12 : 11 But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel did not want me. 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
• Ps 95:10 : 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
• Isa 43:23 : 23 You have not brought Me the sheep of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with incense.
• Acts 7:36 : 36 He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
• Rom 1:24-28 : 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves, 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 And likewise the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another; men with men working what is shameful, and receiving in themselves that penalty of their error which was fitting. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• Heb 3:9 : 9 When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.
• Heb 3:15-17 : 15 While it is said, Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion. 16 For some, when they heard, did provoke: yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
• Ezek 8:16 : 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
• Ezek 14:7-9 : 7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger who sojourns in Israel, who separates himself from me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself: 8 And I will set my face against that man and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 9 And if the prophet is deceived when he has spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. 10 And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him who seeks unto him;
• Ezek 20:25 : 25 Therefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they should not live;
• Hos 4:17 : 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.