Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.
Parallel translations
- KJV Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.
- BSB Their hearts are devious; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and demolish their sacred pillars.
- NKJV Their heart is divided; Now they are held guilty. He will break down their altars; He will ruin their sacred pillars.
- NASB Their heart is deceitful; Now they must suffer for their guilt. The Lord will break down their altars And destroy their memorial stones.
- NLT The hearts of the people are fickle; they are guilty and must be punished. The Lord will break down their altars and smash their sacred pillars.
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- 1 Kgs 18:21Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
- Mic 5:13I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
- Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- Luke 16:13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
- Jas 1:8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
- Rev 3:15–16“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
- Zeph 1:5those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
- Matt 6:24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
- Hos 7:8Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
- Hos 8:5–6Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
- Hos 13:16Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”
- Isa 44:18They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
- 1 Sam 5:4When they arose early on the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before Yahweh’s ark; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso was intact.
- Hos 10:5–8The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
- Jer 43:13He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and he shall burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’”
- Zech 13:2It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
- 1 Jn 2:15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- 2 Th 2:11–12Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
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