KJV King James Version
And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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2 Kings 17:9
And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities.
WEB World English Bible
The children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
ASV American Standard Version
And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Jehovah their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the sons of Israel do covertly things that are not right against Jehovah their God, and build for them high places in all their cities, from a tower of the watchers unto the fenced city,
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 17
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor [by] 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, which 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 walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly [those] things that [were] not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as [did] the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
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וַיְחַפְּא֣וּH2644 · cha.pahto do secretlyבְנֵֽי־H1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֗לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelדְּבָרִים֙H1697 · da.varwordאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichלֹא־H3808 · lonotכֵ֔ןH3651 · kenrightעַל־H5921 · aluponיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑םH430 · e.lo.himGodוַיִּבְנ֨וּH1129 · ba.nahto buildלָהֶ֤םH9038 · hemthemבָּמוֹת֙H1116 · ba.mahhigh placeבְּכָל־H3605 · kolallעָ֣רֵיהֶ֔םH5892 · irexcitementמִמִּגְדַּ֥לH4026 · mig.dal(Hananel) Towerנוֹצְרִ֖יםH5341 · na.tsarto watchעַד־H5704 · adtillעִ֥ירH5892 · irexcitementמִבְצָֽר׃H4013 · miv.tsarfortification
Cross-references
2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.Hosea 12:11[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed [be] the man that maketh [any] graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth [it] in [a] secret [place]. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.Deuteronomy 13:6If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which [is] as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;Job 31:27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:Ezekiel 8:12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
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