Study it in the app“And they built the high places of Baal that are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to make their sons and their daughters pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, and it did not come into my heart that they should do this abomination, so as to make Judah sin.”
And they builtוַיִּבְנוּthe high placesאֶת בָּמוֹתof Baalהַבַּעַלthat areאֲשֶׁרin the valleyבְּגֵיאof Ben-hinnom,בֶן הִנֹּםto makeלְהַעֲבִירtheir sonsאֶת בְּנֵיהֶםand their daughtersוְאֶת בְּנוֹתֵיהֶםpass throughהַעֲבִירto Molech,לַמֹּלֶךְwhichאֲשֶׁרI did notלֹאcommand them,צִוִּיתִיםand it did notוְלֹאcomeעָלְתָהinto my heartעַל לִבִּיthat they should doלַעֲשׂוֹתthis abomination,הַתּוֹעֵבָה הַזֹּאתso as to makeלְמַעַן הַחֲטִיאJudahאֶת יְהוּדָהsin.הַחֲטִיא
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “yivnu” appearshigh place
An elevated site with an altar, often for other gods.
Where else “bamot” appearsBaal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “baal” appearsvalley
Narrow valley, a ravine between high slopes.
Where else “ge” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ven” appearsHinnom
Hinnom: the name of the valley that runs along the south side of Jerusalem ("valley of Ben-hinnom," valley of the son of Hinnom).
Where else “hinom” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “haavir” appearsdaughter
A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.
Where else “benote” appearsMolech
Molech: a god of peoples near Israel, to whom children were sacrificed. The name looks like the Hebrew word for "king".
Where else “molech” appearscommand
To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".
Where else “tsiviti” appearsgo up
To go from a low place to a higher one: up the mountain, to Jerusalem or to a city.
Where else “alta” appearsheart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appearsabomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toeva” appearscause to sin
To lead others into doing wrong.
Where else “hachati” 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” appearsCf. 7:31; 19:5; Leviticus 18:21.
34And they set their detestable things in the house over which my name is called, to defile it.
35 · This verse (above)
36And now, therefore, thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, concerning this city of which you are saying, ‘It has been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword and by the famine and by the pestilence’:
