Add parallel Print Page Options

you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and (A)have gone and made for yourself other gods and (B)molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have (C)cast Me behind your back— 10 therefore behold, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam: I (D)will cut off from Jeroboam [a]every male person, (E)both bond and free in Israel, and I (F)will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone. 11 (G)Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat; for Yahweh has spoken it.”’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:10 Lit him who urinates against the wall, cf. 1 Sam 25:22, 34; 1 Kin 16:11; 21:21; 2 Kin 9:8

You have done more evil(A) than all who lived before you.(B) You have made for yourself other gods, idols(C) made of metal; you have aroused(D) my anger and turned your back on me.(E)

10 “‘Because of this, I am going to bring disaster(F) on the house of Jeroboam. I will cut off from Jeroboam every last male in Israel—slave or free.[a](G) I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns dung, until it is all gone.(H) 11 Dogs(I) will eat those belonging to Jeroboam who die in the city, and the birds(J) will feed on those who die in the country. The Lord has spoken!’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 14:10 Or Israel—every ruler or leader