Study it in the app“And it happened because the sons of Israel had sinned against YHWH their Elohim, who brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they feared other gods,”
And it happenedוַיְהִיbecauseכִּיthe sonsבְנֵיof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלhad sinnedחָטְאוּagainst YHWHלַיהוָהtheir Elohim,אֱלֹהֵיהֶםwho brought them upהַמַּעֲלֶה אֹתָםfrom the landמֵאֶרֶץof Egypt,מִצְרַיִםfrom underמִתַּחַתthe handיַדof Pharaohפַּרְעֹהkingמֶלֶךְof Egypt;מִצְרָיִםand they fearedוַיִּירְאוּotherאֲחֵרִיםgods,אֱלֹהִים
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “vene” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearssin
To do wrong, fail God or another.
Where else “chatu” 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 “yhva” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearsbring up
To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".
Where else “maale” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “erets” appearsEgypt, Mizraim
See it on the mapWhere else “mitsrayim” appearspower
Literally "the hand": the strength and control someone has.
Where else “yad” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “paro” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsrevere
To revere God, or honor one's parents.
Where else “yiru” appearsother
Other, another; next.
Where else “acherim” appearsVerses 7 to 23 say why the northern kingdom fell.
Egypt
Today: Egypt (Nile Valley)
A country in northeast Africa along the Nile River, southwest of Israel.
Joseph was sold into it, and his family went down to live there (Gen 37:28; 46:6). God brought Israel out of it with a mighty hand (Exod 12:41). The child Jesus fled there with his parents (Matt 2:14).
6In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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8and walked in the statutes of the nations whom YHWH dispossessed before the sons of Israel, and in those of the kings of Israel which they made.
