11 (A)If there is iniquity in Gilead,
    they shall surely come to nothing:
(B)in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
    (C)their altars also are like stone heaps
    (D)on the furrows of the field.

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11 Because Ephraim (A)has multiplied altars for sinning,
    they have become to him altars for sinning.

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(A)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    (B)tracked with blood.

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15 Though you play the whore, O (A)Israel,
    let not (B)Judah become guilty.
(C)Enter not into (D)Gilgal,
    nor go up to (E)Beth-aven,
    and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”

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15 Every evil of theirs is in (A)Gilgal;
    there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
    all (B)their princes are (C)rebels.

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10 (A)Israel is a luxuriant vine
    that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
    (B)the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
    he improved his pillars.

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(A)Those who pay regard to vain idols
    (B)forsake their hope of steadfast love.

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    but do not seek (A)Bethel,
and do not enter into (B)Gilgal
    or cross over to (C)Beersheba;
for (D)Gilgal shall surely go into exile,
    and (E)Bethel shall come to nothing.”

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(A)“Come to Bethel, and transgress;
    to (B)Gilgal, and multiply transgression;
(C)bring your (D)sacrifices every morning,
    your tithes every three days;

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15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
    at the time of their punishment they shall perish.

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(A)They are both (B)stupid and foolish;
    the instruction of idols is but wood!

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28 But (A)where are your gods
    that you made for yourself?
Let them arise, (B)if they can save you,
    in your time of trouble;
for (C)as many as your cities
    are your gods, O Judah.

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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
    and burst your bonds;
    but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
    and under every green tree
    you bowed down (D)like a whore.

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And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, (A)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves (B)pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,

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Elijah Predicts a Drought

17 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of (A)Tishbe[a] in Gilead, said to Ahab, (B)“As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, (C)before whom I stand, (D)there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 17:1 Septuagint; Hebrew of the settlers

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