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Green's Literal Translation

1 Kings 16:13

concerning all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin, to provoke to anger Jehovah the God of Israel with their vanities.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   Elah;   Prophecy;   Zimri;   Thompson Chain Reference - Vanities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Omri;   Zimri;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baasha;   Idol;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nadab;   Samaria;   Zimri;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Elah;   Omri;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Elah;   Zimri (1);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baasha ;   Elah ;   Tirzah ;   Zimri ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Nimshi;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Zimri;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zim'ri;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Babylonish Captivity, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Elah (2);   Vanity;   Zimri (1);   Zimri (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This happened because of all the sins of Baasha and those of his son Elah, which they committed and caused Israel to commit, angering the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.
Hebrew Names Version
for all the sins of Ba`sha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Yisra'el to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, to anger with their vanities.
King James Version
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
English Standard Version
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
New Century Version
Baasha and his son Elah sinned and led the people of Israel to sin, and they made the Lord , the God of Israel, angry because of their worthless idols.
New English Translation
This happened because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and which they made Israel commit. They angered the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.
Amplified Bible
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they committed, and made Israel commit, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
New American Standard Bible
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah, which they committed and into which they misled Israel, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For all the sinnes of Baasha, and sinnes of Elah his sonne, which they sinned & made Israel to sinne, and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel with their vanities.
Legacy Standard Bible
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their idols.
Contemporary English Version
Baasha and Elah sinned and caused the Israelites to sin, and they made the Lord angry by worshiping idols.
Complete Jewish Bible
because of all of Ba‘sha's sins and the sins of Elah his son, which they committed and with which they made Isra'el sin, thereby angering Adonai the God of Isra'el with their worthless idols.
Darby Translation
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and wherewith they made Israel to sin, provoking Jehovah the God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Easy-to-Read Version
This happened because of all the sins of Baasha and his son, Elah. They sinned and they caused the Israelites to sin. They worshiped worthless idols, and this made the Lord angry.
George Lamsa Translation
For all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and made Israel to sin in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
Good News Translation
Because of their idolatry and because they led Israel into sin, Baasha and his son Elah had aroused the anger of the Lord , the God of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
because of all the synnes of Baesa and of Ella his sonne, which they dyd, and made Israel for to synne, to prouoke the LORDE God of Israel vnto wrath thorow their vanities.
American Standard Version
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
Bible in Basic English
Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For all the sinnes of Baasa and sinnes of Ela his sonne which they sinned, and made Israel to sinne and angre the Lorde God of Israel with their vanities.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
for all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, with their vanities.
King James Version (1611)
For all the sinnes of Baasha and the sinnes of Elah his sonne, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sinne, in prouoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
for all the sins of Baasa and Ela his son, as he led Israel astray to sin, to provoke the Lord God of Israel with their vanities.
English Revised Version
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
Berean Standard Bible
This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and for the synnes of Hela, his sone, whiche synneden, and maden Israel to do synne, and wraththiden the Lord God of Israel in her vanytees.
Young's Literal Translation
concerning all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, that they sinned, and that they caused Israel to sin to provoke Jehovah, God of Israel, with their vanities.
Update Bible Version
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
Webster's Bible Translation
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
World English Bible
for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
New King James Version
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, by which they had sinned and by which they had made Israel sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
New Living Translation
This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed, and because of the sins they led Israel to commit. They provoked the anger of the Lord , the God of Israel, with their worthless idols.
New Life Bible
It happened because of all the sins of Baasha and his son Elah. They sinned and they made Israel sin. They made the Lord God of Israel angry with their false gods.
New Revised Standard
because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of his son Elah that they committed, and that they caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
as to all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, - wherewith they sinned, and wherewith they caused, Israel, to sin, provoking to anger Yahweh God of Israel, with their vanities.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For all the sins of Baasa, and the sins of Ela, his son, who sinned, and made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, with their vanities.
Revised Standard Version
for all the sins of Ba'asha and the sins of Elah his son which they sinned, and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, 2 Since I have raised you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and caused My people Israel to sin, to provoke Me to anger with their sins; 3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 4 He who dies of Baasha in the city, the dogs shall eat; and whoever of his dies in the field, the birds of the heavens shall eat. 5 And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and that which he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Israel? 6 And Baasha lay with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah. And his son Elah reigned in his place. 7 And also by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, the Word of Jehovah came against Baasha, and against his house, and against all the evil that he did in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to belike the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed him. 8 In the twenty sixth year of Asa the king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years. 9 And his servant Zimri, the captain of half of the chariots, conspired against him. And he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the house of Tirzah. 10 And Zimri came in and struck him, and killed him in the twenty seventh year of Asa the king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in provoking: 1 Kings 15:30

vanities: Deuteronomy 32:21, 1 Samuel 12:21, 2 Kings 17:15, Isaiah 41:29, Jeremiah 10:3-5, Jeremiah 10:8, Jeremiah 10:15, Jonah 2:8, Romans 1:21-23, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:6 - Elah 1 Kings 16:7 - in provoking 1 Kings 16:19 - in doing 1 Kings 16:26 - their vanities Acts 14:15 - from

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
And Sarai, Abram's wife, did not bear to him; and to her belonged a female slave, an Egyptian, and her name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, My injury be upon you; I gave my slave-girl into your bosom, and she saw that she had conceived, and I was despised in her eyes. Let Jehovah judge between me and you.
Genesis 16:7
And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness; by the well in the way of Shur.
Genesis 16:9
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hand.
Genesis 16:10
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will exceedingly multiply your seed, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 16:12
And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers.
Genesis 22:14
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Will See; so that it is said until this day, In the mount of Jehovah it will be seen.
Genesis 28:17
And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing except the house of God, and this is the door to Heaven.
Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, truly now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hand, and last night He judged.
Judges 6:24
And Gideon built an altar to Jehovah there, and called it Peace of Jehovah. It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites until today.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son,.... By which it appears that the son trod in the steps of his father, and was therefore cut off:

by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their vanities; their idols, which had nothing in them, and cannot be of any service to their worshippers; and to serve such, and neglect the worship of the true God, and draw others into the same iniquity, must be very provoking to the most High.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their vanities - The “calves.” The Hebrews call an idol by terms signifying “emptiness,” “vapor,” or “nothingness.” (Compare marginal references.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 16:13. For all the sins of Baasha — We see why it was that God permitted such judgments to fall on this family. Baasha was a grievous offender, and so also was his son Elah; and they caused the people to sin; and they provoked God to anger by their idolatries.


 
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