1 Kings 14:9

“but you have done evil more than all who were before you, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast images to provoke me to anger, and me you have thrown behind your back;”

1 Kings 14:9 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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1 Kings 14:9, word by word

but you have done evilתָּרַעtara

do evil

To harm someone; evildoers.

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but you have done evilעֲשׂוֹתasot

do

To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.

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wereהָיוּhayu

exist

To exist: "let there be light".

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before youפָנֶיfane

before

Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.

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and you have goneתֵּלֶךְtelech

go

To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.

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otherאֲחֵרִיםacherim

other

Other, another; next.

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godsאֱלֹהִיםelohim

gods

The gods of other peoples.

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and cast imagesמַסֵּכוֹתmasechot

cast image

An idol made of melted metal.

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to provoke me to angerהַכְעִיסֵhachise

provoke

To stir up someone's anger by what one does, like worshiping idols before YHWH.

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you have thrownהִשְׁלַכְתָּhishlachta

throw

To throw something with force, far off or down.

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your backגַוֶּgave

back

Back, the rear part of the body. "To cast behind one's back" is to set something aside and pay no attention to it.

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The context

8and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes,

9 · This verse (above)

10therefore, look, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, restrained and left in Israel; and I will sweep away after the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung, until it is gone.

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