Study it in the app“because they have forsaken me and made this place foreign and burned incense in it to other gods whom they did not know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah, and they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,”
becauseיַעַן אֲשֶׁרthey have forsaken meעֲזָבֻנִיand madeוַיְנַכְּרוּthis placeאֶת הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּהforeignand burned incenseוַיְקַטְּרוּin itבוֹto other godsלֵאלֹהִים אֲחֵרִיםwhomאֲשֶׁר םthey did not know,לֹא יְדָעוּtheyהֵמָּהand their fathersוַאֲבוֹתֵיהֶםand the kingsוּמַלְכֵיof Judah,יְהוּדָהand they have filledוּמָלְאוּthis placeאֶת הַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּהwith the bloodדַּםof innocents,נְקִיִּם
forsake
To turn one's back on YHWH, someone or a place.
Where else “azavu” appearsGeneral meaning: Recognize.
Where else “yenakru” appearsplace
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appearsburn incense
To offer fragrant smoke to YHWH or other gods.
Where else “yekatru” appearsgods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “lohim” appearsother
Other, another; next.
Where else “acherim” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yedau” appearsforefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avote” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “malche” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsfill
To take up all the space of something, or to give someone all it can hold.
Where else “malu” appearsbloodguilt
A murder, and the guilt it leaves on the killer.
Where else “dam” appearsinnocent
Without guilt: blood of one who did no wrong.
Where else “nekiyim” appears3and say, ‘Hear the word of YHWH, kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am bringing evil on this place such that everyone who hears of it, his ears will tingle,
4 · This verse (above)
5and they have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command and did not speak of, and which did not rise in my heart.
