13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

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Jephthah

Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.(A) They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths,(B) and the gods of Aram,(C) the gods of Sidon,(D) the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites(E) and the gods of the Philistines.(F) And because the Israelites forsook the Lord(G) and no longer served him,

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And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served not him.

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36 They worshiped their idols,(A)
    which became a snare(B) to them.

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36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

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Othniel

The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord(A) their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.(B)

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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

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20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons.(B) 22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy?(C) Are we stronger than he?(D)

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20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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For even if there are so-called gods,(A) whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”),

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For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

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13 The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon(A) king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable(B) god of the people of Ammon.(C)

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13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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33 I will do this because they have[a] forsaken me and worshiped(A) Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked(B) in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees(C) and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 11:33 Hebrew; Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac because he has

33 Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

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He followed Ashtoreth(A) the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek(B) the detestable god of the Ammonites.

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For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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10 They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths(A) and fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.(B)

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10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.

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11 Then the Israelites did evil(A) in the eyes of the Lord(B) and served the Baals.(C)

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11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:

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