Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.” New Living Translation Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them. English Standard Version but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them. Berean Standard Bible Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.” King James Bible But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: New King James Version but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,” New American Standard Bible but have followed the stubbornness of their heart and the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” NASB 1995 but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” NASB 1977 but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” Legacy Standard Bible but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” Amplified Bible but have walked stubbornly after their [own] heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” Christian Standard Bible Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed the Baals as their ancestors taught them.” Holman Christian Standard Bible Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and followed after the Baals as their fathers taught them.” American Standard Version but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them; Contemporary English Version They were stubborn and worshiped Baal, just as their ancestors did. English Revised Version but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them: GOD'S WORD® Translation They followed their own stubborn ways and other gods-the Baals, as their ancestors taught them." Good News Translation Instead, they have been stubborn and have worshiped the idols of Baal as their ancestors taught them to do. International Standard Version Instead, they followed their rebellious hearts and the Baals, as their ancestors taught them." Majority Standard Bible Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.” NET Bible Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do. New Heart English Bible but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; Webster's Bible Translation But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: World English Bible but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.” Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, "" And after the Ba‘alim, "" That their fathers taught them,” Young's Literal Translation And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them, Smith's Literal Translation And they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baalims which their fathers taught them. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBut they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them. Catholic Public Domain Version And they have gone after the depravity of their own heart, and after Baal, which they learned from their fathers.” New American Bible but followed instead their stubborn hearts and the Baals, as their ancestors had taught them, New Revised Standard Version but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleBut have followed after the imagination of their own evil heart and after the idols which their fathers taught them; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they went after the will of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers had taught them OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, And after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them. Brenton Septuagint Translation but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Lament over Zion…13And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice. 14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.” 15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.… Cross References Deuteronomy 29:18-19 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit, / because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. Judges 2:11-13 And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. 2 Kings 17:15-17 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. / They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. / They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 2 Chronicles 33:2-3 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. / For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven. Isaiah 65:2-3 All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations, / to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick, Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD. Hosea 4:12-13 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. Amos 2:4 This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Judah, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they reject the Law of the LORD and fail to keep His statutes; they are led astray by the lies in which their fathers walked. Matthew 15:3-9 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? / For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ / But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ ... Mark 7:6-9 Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ / You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.” ... Romans 1:21-25 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. ... 1 Corinthians 10:20-21 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. / You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. Galatians 4:8-9 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. / But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? Ephesians 4:17-19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. / They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. / Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. Colossians 2:8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ. Treasury of Scripture But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: walked. Jeremiah 3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart. Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. imagination. Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. Zechariah 1:4,5 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD… Galatians 1:14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. Jump to Previous Baalim Baals Ba'als Fathers Followed Heart Hearts Imagination Instead Pride Stubbornly Stubbornness Taught Teaching Walk Walked WalkingJump to Next Baalim Baals Ba'als Fathers Followed Heart Hearts Imagination Instead Pride Stubbornly Stubbornness Taught Teaching Walk Walked WalkingJeremiah 9 1. Jeremiah laments the people for their manifold sins;9. and for their judgment. 12. Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity. 17. He exhorts to mourn for their destruction; 23. and to trust not in themselves, but in God. 25. He threatens both Jews and Gentiles. Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts This phrase highlights the Hebrew word "sherirut," translated as "stubbornness," which conveys a sense of obstinacy and willful defiance. In the context of ancient Israel, this stubbornness reflects a recurring theme where the people repeatedly chose their own desires over God's commandments. Historically, this stubbornness led to a cycle of disobedience and repentance, illustrating the human tendency to prioritize personal inclinations over divine guidance. The heart, in Hebrew thought, is the center of will and decision-making, emphasizing that their rebellion was a conscious choice. and have followed the Baals as their fathers taught them Baalim.--The generic name for false gods of all kinds, and therefore used in the plural. (Comp. Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 2:23.) Verse 14. - Imagination; rather, stubbornness (see on Jeremiah 3:17). Baalim. The Hebrew has "the Baalim;" practically equivalent to "the idol-gods" (see on Jeremiah 2:8). Which their fathers taught them. "Which" refers to both clauses, i.e. to the obstinacy and the Baal-worship.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Instead, they have followedוַיֵּ֣לְכ֔וּ (way·yê·lə·ḵū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk the stubbornness שְׁרִר֣וּת (šə·ri·rūṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 8307: Firmness, stubbornness of their hearts לִבָּ֑ם (lib·bām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre and gone after וְאַחֲרֵי֙ (wə·’a·ḥă·rê) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 310: The hind or following part the Baals, הַבְּעָלִ֔ים (hab·bə·‘ā·lîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1168: Baal -- a heathen god as אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that their fathers אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ (’ă·ḇō·w·ṯām) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 1: Father taught them.” לִמְּד֖וּם (lim·mə·ḏūm) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural | third person masculine plural Strong's 3925: To exercise in, learn Links Jeremiah 9:14 NIVJeremiah 9:14 NLT Jeremiah 9:14 ESV Jeremiah 9:14 NASB Jeremiah 9:14 KJV Jeremiah 9:14 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 9:14 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 9:14 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 9:14 French Bible Jeremiah 9:14 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 9:14 But have walked after the stubbornness (Jer.) |
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