Jeremiah 7:9

7:9 You steal. ¹  You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to ²  other gods whom you have not previously known.

Jeremiah 11:12

11:12 Then those living in the towns of Judah and in Jerusalem will ³  go and cry out for help to the gods to whom they have been sacrificing. However, those gods will by no means ⁴  be able to save them when disaster strikes them.

Jeremiah 11:17

11:17 For though I, the Lord who rules over all, ⁵  planted you in the land, ⁶ 

I now decree that disaster will come on you ⁷ 

because the nations of Israel and Judah have done evil

and have made me angry by offering sacrifices to the god Baal.” ⁸ 

Jeremiah 44:17

44:17 Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. ⁹  We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven ¹⁰  just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles. ¹¹ 

Isaiah 65:3

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me ¹² 

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ¹³ 

and burn incense on brick altars. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 8:9-11

8:9 He said to me, “Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here.” 8:10 So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure ¹⁵  of creeping thing and beast – detestable images ¹⁶  – and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around. ¹⁷  8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ¹⁸  (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ¹⁹  vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

Hosea 11:2

11:2 But the more I summoned ²⁰  them,

the farther they departed from me. ²¹ 

They sacrificed to the Baal idols

and burned incense to images.

[7:9]  ¹ tn Heb “Will you steal…then say, ‘We are safe’?” Verses 9-10 are one long sentence in the Hebrew text.

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “You go/follow after.” See the translator’s note at 2:5 for an explanation of the idiom involved here.

[11:12]  ³ tn Heb “Then the towns of Judah and those living in Jerusalem will…”

[11:12]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew construction is emphatic involving the use of an infinitive of the verb before the verb itself (Heb “saving they will not save”). For this construction to give emphasis to an antithesis, cf. GKC 343 §113.p.

[11:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “Yahweh of armies.”

[11:17]  ⁶ tn The words “in the land” are not in the text but are supplied in the translation to clarify the meaning of the metaphor.

[11:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “For Yahweh of armies who planted you speaks disaster upon you.” Because of the way the term Lord of armies has been rendered this sentence has been restructured to avoid confusion in English style.

[11:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “pronounced disaster…on account of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah which they have done to make me angry [or thus making me angry] by sacrificing to Baal.” The lines have been broken up in conformity with contemporary English style.

[44:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “that went out of our mouth.” I.e., everything we said, promised, or vowed.

[44:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sacrifice to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” The expressions have been combined to simplify and shorten the sentence. The same combination also occurs in vv. 18, 19.

[44:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “saw [or experienced] no disaster/trouble/harm.”

[65:3]  ¹² tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ¹³ tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ¹⁴ tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”

[8:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “pattern.”

[8:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “detestable.” The word is often used to describe the figures of foreign gods.

[8:10]  ¹⁷ sn These engravings were prohibited in the Mosaic law (Deut 4:16-18).

[8:11]  ¹⁸ sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).

[8:11]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[11:2]  ²⁰ tc The MT reads קָרְאוּ (qar’u, “they called”; Qal perfect 3rd person common plural from קָרַא, qara’, “to call”), cf. KJV, NASB; however, the LXX and Syriac reflect כְּקָרְאִי (kÿqar’i, “as I called”; preposition כְּ (kaf) + Qal infinitive construct from קָרַא + 1st person common singular suffix). The presence of the resumptive adverb כֵּן (ken, “even so”) in the following clause supports the alternate textual tradition reflected in the LXX and Syriac (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV, NLT).

[11:2]  ²¹ tc The MT reads מִפְּנֵיהֶם (mippÿnehem, “from them”; preposition + masculine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix), so KJV, ASV, NASB; however, the LXX and Syriac reflect an alternate Hebrew textual tradition of מִפָּנַי הֵם (mippanay hem, “they [went away] from me”; preposition + masculine plural noun + 1st person common singular suffix, followed by 3rd person masculine plural independent personal pronoun); cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV. The textual variant was caused simply by faulty word division.