Verse 4

And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel, for in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Da sa Herren til ham: «Gi ham navnet Jisre’el, for kort tid fra nå vil jeg straffe Jehus hus for blodbadet i Jisre’el, og jeg vil gjøre ende på kongedømmet i Israel.»

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Da sa Herren til ham: Kall ham Jisre'el, for om en liten stund vil jeg kreve Jisre'els blod av Jehus hus og gjøre ende på Israels rike.

• Norsk King James

  Og Herren sa til ham: Kall hans navn Jezreel, for enda en liten stund, så vil jeg hevne blodet fra Jezreel over huset til Jehu, og jeg vil avslutte kongedømmet til Israels hus.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Herren sa til Hosea: Gi ham navnet Jisreel, for om kort tid vil jeg straffe Jehus slekt for blodskyld i Jisreel og gjøre slutt på Israels kongedømme.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Herren sa til ham: "Kall ham Jisre'el, for om kort tid vil jeg kreve blodet fra Jisre'el-gården av Jehus hus, og jeg vil gjøre ende på Israels rike."

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Og Herren sa til ham: Kall ham Jesreel, for om kort tid vil jeg hevne Jesreels blod på Jehus hus og gjøre slutt på kongedømmet i Israels hus.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Da sa Herren til ham: Kall ham Jezreel, for om en liten stund vil jeg hevne Jezreels blod over Jehus hus og få Israels hus til å opphøre med sitt kongerike.

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

  Og Herren sa til ham: Kall ham Jesreel, for om kort tid vil jeg hevne Jesreels blod på Jehus hus og gjøre slutt på kongedømmet i Israels hus.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Herren sa til ham: «Kall ham Jisre'el, for om kort tid vil jeg straffe Jehus hus for blodbadet i Jisre'el, og jeg vil gjøre ende på Israels kongedømme.»

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then the LORD said to him, "Call him Jezreel, because in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the bloodshed at Jezreel, and I will bring an end to the kingdom of Israel."

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Da sa Herren til ham: «Kall ham Jisreel, for om kort tid vil jeg straffe Jehus hus for blodbadet i Jisreel og gjøre slutt på kongedømmet i Israel.»

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Og Herren sagde til ham: Kald hans Navn Jisreel; thi (det er) endnu et Lidet, saa vil jeg hjemsøge Blodskyld i Jisreel over Jehus Huus, og lade ophøre Israels Huses Rige.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the use of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the use of Israel.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Og Herren sa til ham: Kall ham Jesreel, for om kort tid vil jeg hevne Jesreels blodskyld over Jehus hus og gjøre slutt på Israels kongedømme.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Herren sa til ham: "Kall ham Jisreel; for om en kort tid vil jeg straffe blodet fra Jisreel på Jehus hus, og jeg vil gjøre ende på Israels hus sitt kongedømme.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Herren sa til ham: 'Kall ham Jisreel, for om kort tid vil jeg straffe blodbadet i Jisreel på Jehus hus og gjøre slutt på kongedømmet til Israels hus.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Og Herren sa til ham: Kall ham Jisreel; for om kort tid vil jeg hevne blodet i Jisreel på Jehus hus, og jeg vil gjøre ende på riket til Israels hus.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Og Herren sa til ham: Gi ham navnet Jisreel, for om litt tid vil jeg straffe Jehus ætt for blodet i Jisreel, og gjøre ende på Israels kongedømme.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And the LORDE sayde vnto him: call his name Iesrael, for I wil shortly auenge the bloude of Iesrael vpon the house of Iehu, and will bringe the kingdome of the house of Israel to an ende.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And the Lord said vnto him, Cal his name Izreel: for yet a litle, and I will visite the blood of Izreel vpon the house of Iehu, and will cause to cease the kingdome of the house of Israel.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the Lorde sayde vnto hym, Call his name Iezrahel: for I wyll shortlye auenge the blood of Iezrahel vpon the house of Iehu, and wyll bryng the kyngdome of the house of Israel to an ende.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and Jehovah saith unto him, `Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little, and I have charged the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and have caused to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Yahweh said to him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then the LORD said to Hosea,“Name him‘Jezreel,’ because in a little while I will punish the dynasty of Jehu on account of the bloodshed in the valley of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 10:7-8 : 7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel. 8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.
• 2 Kgs 10:10-11 : 10 Know now that nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, shall fail: for the LORD has done what he spoke by his servant Elijah. 11 So Jehu killed all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolk, and his priests, until he left none remaining.
• Matt 1:21 : 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
• Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
• Luke 1:31 : 31 Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son, and shall call His name JESUS.
• Luke 1:63 : 63 He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, saying, His name is John. So they all marveled.
• John 1:42 : 42 And he brought him to Jesus. Now when Jesus looked at him, he said, You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas, (which is translated, A Stone.)
• 2 Kgs 9:24-25 : 24 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and struck Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sank down in his chariot. 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;
• 2 Kgs 10:17 : 17 And when he came to Samaria, he killed all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke to Elijah.
• 2 Kgs 10:29-31 : 29 However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu did not turn away from them, namely, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan. 30 And the LORD said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
• 2 Kgs 15:10-12 : 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and struck him before the people, and killed him, and reigned in his place. 11 And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, indeed, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. 12 This was the word of the LORD which he spoke to Jehu, saying, 'Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.' And so it came to pass.
• 2 Kgs 15:29 : 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
• 2 Kgs 17:6-9 : 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. 7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods. 8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built for themselves high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortified city. 10 They set up images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger. 12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing. 13 Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all the seers, saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Nevertheless they would not listen, but stiffened their necks, like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God. 15 They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; they followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves, and went after the nations that were around them, although the LORD had commanded them not to do like them. 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. 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. 18 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them from his sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they had made. 20 So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21 For he ripped Israel from the house of David; they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD, and made them commit a great sin. 22 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, 23 until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day.
• 2 Kgs 18:9-9 : 9 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. 10 At the end of three years they captured it. So, in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria and placed them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, 12 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded, and neither would they listen to them nor do them.
• 1 Chr 5:25-26 : 25 But they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. 26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.
• Isa 7:14 : 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Isa 9:6 : 6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
• Jer 3:8 : 8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
• Jer 23:2 : 2 Therefore, thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, says the LORD.
• Ezek 23:10 : 10 They uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and killed her with the sword: and she became notorious among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
• Ezek 23:31 : 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your hand.
• Hos 1:6 : 6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And God said to him, Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, but I will utterly take them away.
• Hos 1:9 : 9 Then God said, Call his name Lo-Ammi, for you are not My people, and I will not be your God.
• Hos 2:13 : 13 And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them, and she adorned herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD.
• Hos 2:22 : 22 And the earth shall listen to the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall listen to Jezreel.
• Hos 9:17 : 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.