Then I said to them, ‘What does the high place where you go mean?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day. ”’
Parallel translations
- KJV Then I said unto them, What is the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.
- BSB So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)
- ESV (I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.)
- NKJV Then I said to them, ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’
- NASB Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.” ’
- NLT I said to them, ‘What is this high place where you are going?’ (This kind of pagan shrine has been called Bamah—‘high place’—ever since.)
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 2
- Ezek 16:24–25“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
- Ezek 16:31in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
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