2 Kings 17:11 — Compare Translations

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and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

English Amplified

There they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations whom the Lord carried away before them; and they did wicked things provoking the Lord to anger.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

There they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations whom the Lord carried away before them; and they did wicked things provoking the Lord to anger.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the Lord had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the LORD.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

and there they burned incense on all the high places, as did the nations that Jehovah had carried away from before them, and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

English EASY 2024

At all those places they burned incense to worship their gods, as the nations in Canaan had done. The Lord had chased those nations out of Canaan so that the Israelites could live there. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord very angry.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

They burned incense there in all those places for worship. They did these things like the nations that the Lord forced out of the land before them. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord angry.

and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,

English GNT (Good News Translation)

and they burned incense on all the pagan altars, following the practice of the people whom the Lord had driven out of the land. They aroused the Lord 's anger with all their wicked deeds

English God's Word - GW 1995

At all the illegal places of worship, they sacrificed in the same way as the nations that the Lord had removed from the land ahead of them. They did evil things and made the Lord furious.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the LORD.

English KJV 1611

And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

English LSB

and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which Yahweh had taken away into exile before them; and they did evil things provoking Yahweh to anger.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord had carried away before them. And they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger,

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which the LORD had carried away to exile before them; and they did evil things provoking the LORD.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

There, on all the high places, they burned incense like the nations whom the LORD had sent into exile at their coming. They did evil things that provoked the LORD,

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

The Lord had driven out nations to make room for Israel. But the people of Israel burned incense at every high place, just as those nations had done. The Israelites did evil things that made the Lord very angry.

English NIV

At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the LORD to anger.

English NKJ 1982

There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger,

English NLT

They burned incense at the shrines, just like the nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of them. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, arousing the LORD's anger.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger;

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

and there they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

and they had burned incense to the gods of the very nations which the Lord had cleared out of the land when Israel came in. So the people of Israel had done many evil things, and the Lord was very angry.

English Tyndale 1537

And there they sacrificed in the Hillaltars, as did the heathen which the LORD carried away at their coming, and wrought wicked deeds, to anger the LORD withal.