In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked Yahweh, the God of his fathers, to anger.
Parallel translations
- KJV And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
- BSB In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.
- ESV In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.
- NKJV And in every single city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.
- NASB In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the Lord, the God of his fathers, to anger.
- NLT He made pagan shrines in all the towns of Judah for offering sacrifices to other gods. In this way, he aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
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- 2 Chr 28:3Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
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