1 Kings 16:13

What does 1 Kings 16:13 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Kings 16:13 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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 theGod of Israel to anger with their vanities.

Context

v.12Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

v.13This passage

v.14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jonah 2:8

    They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

  • Isaiah 41:29

    Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • Jeremiah 10:8

    But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • 1 Samuel 12:21

    and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

  • Jeremiah 10:3

    For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

  • 2 Kings 17:15

    And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

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