Study it in the app“They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations whom YHWH carried into exile from before them; and they did evil things to provoke YHWH to anger.”
They burned incenseוַיְקַטְּרוּthereשָׁםon allבְּכָלthe high places,בָּמוֹתlike the nationsכַּגּוֹיִםwhomאֲשֶׁרYHWHיְהוָהcarried into exileהֶגְלָהfrom before them;מִפְּנֵיהֶםand they didוַיַּעֲשׂוּevilרָעִיםthingsדְּבָרִיםto provoke YHWH to anger.לְהַכְעִיס אֶת יְהוָה
burn incense
To offer fragrant smoke to YHWH or other gods.
Where else “yekatru” appearshigh place
An elevated site with an altar, often for other gods.
Where else “bamot” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsgo into exile
To be taken away from one's own land, or deport others.
Where else “hegla” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “pene” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “yaasu” appearsevil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raim” appearsthing
A matter, a thing; with "not", nothing.
Where else “devarim” appearsprovoke
To stir up someone's anger by what one does, like worshiping idols before YHWH.
Where else “hachis” appears10They set up for themselves standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.
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12They served the idols, of which YHWH had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
