1 Raja-raja 14:9
Konteks14:9 You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me. 1
1 Raja-raja 14:2
Konteks14:2 Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise 2 yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. 3
1 Tawarikh 29:6
Konteks29:6 The leaders of the families, the leaders of the Israelite tribes, the commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, and the supervisors of the king’s work contributed willingly.
Mazmur 14:3
Konteksthey are all morally corrupt. 5
None of them does what is right, 6
not even one!
Yehezkiel 8:16
Konteks8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there 7 at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, 8 were about twenty-five 9 men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, 10 facing east – they were worshiping the sun 11 toward the east!
[14:9] 1 tn Heb “you went and you made for yourself other gods, metal [ones], angering me, and you threw me behind your back.”
[14:2] 2 tn Heb “Get up, change yourself.”
[14:2] 3 tn Heb “look, Ahijah the prophet is there, he told me [I would be] king over this nation.”
[14:3] 4 tn Heb “everyone turns aside.”
[14:3] 5 tn Heb “together they are corrupt.”
[14:3] 6 tn Heb “there is none that does good.”
[8:16] 7 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.
[8:16] 8 sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).
[8:16] 9 tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.
[8:16] tn Or “exactly twenty-five.”
[8:16] 10 sn The temple faced east.
[8:16] 11 tn Or “the sun god.”
[8:16] sn The worship of astral entities may have begun during the reign of Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:5).
