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Verse	Translation	Text
Ho 3:4	Strong Concordance	For the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall abide [03427] many [07227] days [03117] without a king [04428], and without a prince [08269], and without a sacrifice [02077], and without an image [04676], and without an ephod [0646], and without teraphim [08655]:
	King James	For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The long period here foretold was to be one in which Israel should have no civil polity, king, or prince, no sacrifice to Jehovah, and yet no idol, or false god, no ephod, or teraphim. Exactly describing their state for the last nineteen centuries, separate from idols, yet without any legal sacrifice to Jehovah, whom they profess to worship, and without being acknowledged by Him as His Church. So KIMCHI, a Jew, explains it. The ephod was worn by the high priest above the tunic and robe. It consisted of two finely wrought pieces which hung down, the one in front over the breast, the other on the back, to the middle of the thigh; joined on the shoulders by golden clasps set in onyx stones with the names of the twelve tribes, and fastened round the waist by a girdle (Exo 28:6-12). The common ephod worn by the lower priests, Levites, and any person performing sacred rites, was of linen (Sa2 6:14; Ch1 15:27). In the breast were the Urim and Thummim by which God gave responses to the Hebrews. The latter was one of the five things which the second temple lacked, and which the first had. It, as representing the divinely constituted priesthood, is opposed to the idolatrous "teraphim," as "sacrifice" (to Jehovah) is to "an (idolatrous) image." "Abide" answers to "thou shalt abide for me" (Hos 3:3). Abide in solitary isolation, as a separated wife. The teraphim were tutelary household gods, in the shape of human busts, cut off at the waist (as the root of the Hebrew word implies) [MAURER], (Gen 31:19, Gen 31:30-35). They were supposed to give responses to consulters (Kg2 23:24; Eze 21:21, Margin; Zac 10:2). Saul's daughter, Michal, putting one in a bed, as if it were David, proves the shape to have been that of a man.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

The long period here foretold was to be one in which Israel should have no civil polity, king, or prince, no sacrifice to Jehovah, and yet no idol, or false god, no ephod, or teraphim. Exactly describing their state for the last nineteen centuries, separate from idols, yet without any legal sacrifice to Jehovah, whom they profess to worship, and without being acknowledged by Him as His Church. So KIMCHI, a Jew, explains it. The ephod was worn by the high priest above the tunic and robe. It consisted of two finely wrought pieces which hung down, the one in front over the breast, the other on the back, to the middle of the thigh; joined on the shoulders by golden clasps set in onyx stones with the names of the twelve tribes, and fastened round the waist by a girdle (Exo 28:6-12). The common ephod worn by the lower priests, Levites, and any person performing sacred rites, was of linen (Sa2 6:14; Ch1 15:27). In the breast were the Urim and Thummim by which God gave responses to the Hebrews. The latter was one of the five things which the second temple lacked, and which the first had. It, as representing the divinely constituted priesthood, is opposed to the idolatrous "teraphim," as "sacrifice" (to Jehovah) is to "an (idolatrous) image." "Abide" answers to "thou shalt abide for me" (Hos 3:3). Abide in solitary isolation, as a separated wife. The teraphim were tutelary household gods, in the shape of human busts, cut off at the waist (as the root of the Hebrew word implies) [MAURER], (Gen 31:19, Gen 31:30-35). They were supposed to give responses to consulters (Kg2 23:24; Eze 21:21, Margin; Zac 10:2). Saul's daughter, Michal, putting one in a bed, as if it were David, proves the shape to have been that of a man.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
For the children of Israel shall abide many days - The condition described is one in which there should be no civil polity, none of the special temple-service, nor yet the idolatry, which they had hitherto combined with it or substituted for it. "King and prince" include both higher and lower governors. Judah had "kings" before the captivity, and a sort of "prince" in her governors after it. Judah remained still a polity, although without the glory of her kings, until she rejected Christ. Israel ceased to have any civil government at all. "Sacrifice" was the center of worship before Christ. It was that part of their service, which, above all, foreshadowed His love, His atonement and sacrifice, and the reconciliation of God by His blood, whose merits it pleaded. "Images," were, "contrariwise," the center of idolatry, the visible form of the beings, whom they worshipped instead of God. The "ephod" was the holy garment which the high priest wore, with the names of the twelve tribes and the Urim and Thummim, over his heart, and by which he inquired of God. The "Teraphim" were idolatrous means of divination. So then, "for many days," a long, long period, "the children of Israel" should "abide," in a manner waiting for God, as the wife waited for her husband, kept apart under His care, yet not acknowledged by Him; not following after idolatries, yet cut off from the sacrificial worship which He had appointed for forgiveness of sins, through faith in the Sacrifice yet to be offered, cut off also from the appointed means of consulting Him and knowing His will. Into this state the ten tribes were brought upon their captivity, and (those only excepted who joined the two tribes or have been converted to the Gospel,) they have ever since remained in it.' Into that same condition the two tribes were brought, after that, by "killing the Son, they had filled up the measure of their father's" sins; and the second temple, which His presence had hallowed, was destroyed by the Romans, in that condition they have ever since remained; free from idolatry, and in a state of waiting for God, yet looking in vain for a Messiah, since they had not and would not receive Him who came unto them; praying to God; yet without sacrifice for sin; not owned by God, yet kept distinct and apart by His providence, for a future yet to be revealed. "No one of their own nation has been able to gather them together or to become their king." Julian the Apostate attempted in vain to rebuild their temple, God interposing by miracles to hinder the effort which challenged His Omnipotence. David's temporal kingdom has perished and his line is lost, because Shiloh, the peace-maker, is come. The typical priesthood ceased, in presence of the true "priest after the order of Melchisedek." The line of Aaron is forgotten, unknown, and cannot be recovered. So hopelessly are their genealogies confused, that they themselves conceive it to be one of the offices of their Messiah to disentangle them. Sacrifice, the center of their religion, has ceased and become unlawful. Still their characteristic has been to wait. Their prayer as to the Christ has been, "may He soon be revealed." Eighteen centuries have flowed by. "Their eyes have failed with looking" for God's promise, from where it is not to be found. Nothing has changed this character, in the mass of the people. Oppressed, released, favored; despised, or aggrandised; in East or West; hating Christians, loving to blaspheme Christ, forced (as they would remain Jews,) to explain away the prophecies which speak of Him, deprived of the sacrifices which, to their forefathers, spoke of Him and His atonement; still, as a mass, they blindly wait for Him, the true knowledge of whom, His offices, His priesthood, and His kingdom, they have laid aside. Anti God has been "toward them." He has preserved them from mingling with idolaters or Muslims. Oppression has not extinguished them, favor has not bribed them. He has kept them from abandoning their mangled worship, or the Scriptures which they understand not, and whose true meaning they believe not; they have fed on the raisinhusks of a barren ritual and unspiritual legalism since the Holy Spirit they have grieved away. Yet they exist still, a monument to "us," of God's abiding wrath on sin, as Lot's wife was to them, encrusted, stiff, lifeless, only that we know that "the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live." True it is, that idolatry was not the immediate cause of the final punishment of the two, as it was of the ten tribes. But the words of the prophecy go beyond the first and immediate occasion of it. The sin, which God condemned by Hosea, was alienation from Himself. He loved them, and "They turned to other gods." The outward idolatry was but a fruit and a symbol of the inward. The temptation to idolatry was not simply, nor chiefly, to have a visible symbol to worship, but the hope to obtain from the beings so symbolized, or from their worship, what God refused or forbade. It was a rejection of God, choosing His rival. "The adulteress soul is whoever, forsaking the Creator, loveth the creature." The rejection of our Lord was moreover the crowning act of apostasy, which set the seal on all former rejection of God. And when the sinful soul or nation is punished at last, God punishes not only the last act, which draws down the stroke, but all the former accumulated sins, which culminated in it. So then they who "despised the Bridegroom, who came from heaven to seek the love of His own in faith, and, forsaking Him, gave themselves over to the Scribes and Pharisees who slew Him, that the inheritance, i. e., God's people, "might be" theirs," having the same principle of sin as the ten tribes, were included in their sentence.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
"For the sons of Israel will sit for many days without a king, and without a prince, and without slain-offering, and without monument, and without ephod and teraphim." The explanation of the figure is introduced with כּי, because it contains the ground of the symbolical action. The objects, which are to be taken away from the Israelites, form three pairs, although only the last two are formally connected together by the omission of אין before תּרפים, so as to form one pair, whilst the rest are simply arranged one after another by the repetition of אין before every one. As king and prince go together, so also do slain-offering and memorial. King and prince are the upholders of civil government; whilst slain-offering and memorial represent the nation's worship and religion. מצּבה, monument, is connected with idolatrous worship. The "monuments" were consecrated to Baal (Exo 23:24), and the erection of them was for that reason prohibited even in the law (Lev 26:1; Deu 16:22 : see at Kg1 14:23); but they were widely spread in the kingdom of Israel (Kg2 3:2; Kg2 10:26-28; Kg2 17:10), and they were also erected in Judah under idolatrous kings (Kg1 14:23; Kg2 18:4; Kg2 23:14; Ch2 14:2; Ch2 31:1). The ephod and teraphim did indeed form part of the apparatus of worship, but they are also specially mentioned as media employed in searching into the future. The ephod, the shoulder-dress of the high priest, to which the Urim and Thummim were attached, was the medium through which Jehovah communicated His revelations to the people, and was used for the purpose of asking the will of God (Sa1 23:9; Sa1 30:7); and for the same purpose it was imitated in an idolatrous manner (Jdg 17:5; Jdg 18:5). The teraphim were Penates, which were worshipped as the givers of earthly prosperity, and also as oracular deities who revealed future events (see my Bibl. Archol. 90). The prophet mentions objects connected with both the worship of Jehovah and that of idols, because they were both mixed together in Israel, and for the purpose of showing to the people that the Lord would take away both the Jehovah-worship and also the worship of idols, along with the independent civil government. With the removal of the monarchy (see at Hos 1:4), or the dissolution of the kingdom, not only was the Jehovah-worship abolished, but an end was also put to the idolatry of the nation, since the people discovered the worthlessness of the idols from the fact that, when the judgment burst upon them, they could grant no deliverance; and notwithstanding the circumstance that, when carried into exile, they were transported into the midst of the idolaters, the distress and misery into which they were then plunged filled them with abhorrence of idolatry (see at Hos 2:7). This threat was fulfilled in the history of the ten tribes, when they were carried away with the Assyrian captivity, in which they continue for the most part to the present day without a monarchy, without Jehovah-worship, and without a priesthood. For it is evident that by Israel the ten tribes are intended, not only from the close connection between this prophecy and Hos 1:1-11, where Israel is expressly distinguished from Judah (Hos 1:7), but also from the prospect held out in Hos 3:5, that the sons of Israel will return to David their king, which clearly points to the falling away of the ten tribes from the house of David. At the same time, as the carrying away of Judah also is presupposed in Hos 1:7, Hos 1:11, and therefore what is said of Israel is transferred implicite to Judah, we must not restrict the threat contained in this verse to the Israel of the ten tribes alone, but must also understand it as referring to the Babylonian and Roman exile of the Jews, just as in the time of king Asa (Ch2 15:2-4). The prophet Azariah predicted this to the kingdom of Judah in a manner which furnishes an unmistakeably support to Hosea's prophecy.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
For - Now the parable is unfolded, it shall be with Israel as with such a woman, they and she were guilty of adultery, both punished long, both made slaves, kept hardly, and valued meanly, yet in mercy at last pardoned, and re - accepted tho' after a long time of probation. Without a king - None of their own royal line shall sit on the throne. A prince - Strangers shall be princes and governors over them. Without a sacrifice - Offered according to the law. An image - They could carry none of their images with them, and the Assyrians would not let them make new ones. Ephod - No priest as well as no ephod. And without teraphim - Idolatrous images kept in their private houses, like the Roman household gods; in one word, such should be the state of their captives; they should have nothing of their own either in religious or civil affairs, but be wholly under the power of their conquering enemies.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Many days without a king - Hitherto this prophecy has been literally fulfilled. Since the destruction of the temple by the Romans they have neither had king nor prince, nor any civil government of their own, but have lived in different nations of the earth as mere exiles. They have neither priests nor sacrifices nor urim nor thummim; no prophet, no oracle, no communication of any kind from God. Without an image ephod - teraphim - The Septuagint read, Ουδε ουσης θυσιας, ουδε οντος θυσιαστηριου, ουδε ἱερατειας, ουδε δηλων: "Without a sacrifice, without an altar, without a priesthood, and without oracles;" that is, the urim and thummim. The Vulgate, Arabic, and Syriac read nearly the same. Instead of מצבה matstsebah, an image, they have evidently read מזבח mizbeach, an altar; the letters of these words being very similar, and easily mistaken for each other. But instead of either, one, if not two, of Kennicott's MSS. has מנחה minchah, an oblation. What is called image may signify any kind of pillar, such as God forbade them to erect Lev 26:1, lest it should be an incitement to idolatry. The ephod was the high priest's garment of ceremony; the teraphim were some kind of amulets, telesms, or idolatrous images; the urim and thummim belonged to the breastplate, which was attached to the ephod. Instead of teraphim some would read seraphim, changing the ת tau into ש sin; these are an order of the celestial hierarchy. In short, all the time that the Israelites were in captivity in Babylon, they seem to have been as wholly without forms of idolatrous worship as they were without the worship of God; and this may be what the prophet designs: they were totally without any kind of public worship, whether true or false. As well without images and teraphim, as they were without sacrifice and ephod, though still idolaters in their hearts. They were in a state of the most miserable darkness, which was to continue many days; and it has continued now nearly eighteen hundred years, and must continue yet longer, till they acknowledge him as their Savior whom they crucified as a blasphemer.

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² For the idols [08655] have spoken [01696] vanity [0205], and the diviners [07080] have seen [02372] a lie [08267], and have told [01696] false [07723] dreams [02472]; they comfort [05162] in vain [01892]: therefore they went [05265] their way as a flock [06629], they were troubled [06031], because there was no shepherd [07462].

²¹ For the king [04428] of Babylon [0894] stood [05975] at the parting [0517] of the way [01870], at the head [07218] of the two [08147] ways [01870], to use [07080] divination [07081]: he made his arrows [02671] bright [07043], he consulted [07592] with images [08655], he looked [07200] in the liver [03516].

²⁴ Moreover the workers with familiar spirits [0178], and the wizards [03049], and the images [08655], and the idols [01544], and all the abominations [08251] that were spied [07200] in the land [0776] of Judah [03063] and in Jerusalem [03389], did Josiah [02977] put away [01197], that he might perform [06965] the words [01697] of the law [08451] which were written [03789] in the book [05612] that Hilkiah [02518] the priest [03548] found [04672] in the house [01004] of the LORD [03068].

³⁰ And now, though thou wouldest needs [01980] be gone [01980], because thou sore [03700] longedst [03700] after thy father's [01] house [01004], yet wherefore hast thou stolen [01589] my gods [0430]?
³¹ And Jacob [03290] answered [06030] and said [0559] to Laban [03837], Because I was afraid [03372]: for I said [0559], Peradventure [06435] thou wouldest take by force [01497] thy daughters [01323] from me.
³² With whomsoever [0834] thou findest [04672] thy gods [0430], let him not live [02421]: before [05048] our brethren [0251] discern [05234] thou what is thine with me, and take [03947] it to thee. For Jacob [03290] knew [03045] not that Rachel [07354] had stolen [01589] them.
³³ And Laban [03837] went [0935] into Jacob's [03290] tent [0168], and into Leah's [03812] tent [0168], and into the two [08147] maidservants [0519]' tents [0168]; but he found [04672] them not. Then went he out [03318] of Leah's [03812] tent [0168], and entered [0935] into Rachel's [07354] tent [0168].
³⁴ Now Rachel [07354] had taken [03947] the images [08655], and put [07760] them in the camel's [01581] furniture [03733], and sat [03427] upon them. And Laban [03837] searched [04959] all the tent [0168], but found [04672] them not.
³⁵ And she said [0559] to her father [01], Let it not displease [02734] [05869] my lord [0113] that I cannot [03201] rise up [06965] before thee [06440]; for the custom [01870] of women [0802] is upon me. And he searched [02664], but found [04672] not the images [08655].

¹⁹ And Laban [03837] went [01980] to shear [01494] his sheep [06629]: and Rachel [07354] had stolen [01589] the images [08655] that were her father's [01].

³ And I said [0559] unto her, Thou shalt abide [03427] for me many [07227] days [03117]; thou shalt not play the harlot [02181], and thou shalt not be [01961] for another man [0376]: so will I also be for thee.

²⁷ And David [01732] was clothed [03736] with a robe [04598] of fine linen [0948], and all the Levites [03881] that bare [05375] the ark [0727], and the singers [07891], and Chenaniah [03663] the master [08269] of the song [04853] with the singers [07891]: David [01732] also had upon him an ephod [0646] of linen [0906].

¹⁴ And David [01732] danced [03769] before [06440] the LORD [03068] with all his might [05797]; and David [01732] was girded [02296] with a linen [0906] ephod [0646].

⁶ And they shall make [06213] the ephod [0646] of gold [02091], of blue [08504], and of purple [0713], of scarlet [08144] [08438], and fine twined [07806] linen [08336], with cunning [02803] work [04639].
⁷ It shall have the two [08147] shoulderpieces [03802] thereof joined [02266] at the two [08147] edges [07098] thereof; and so it shall be joined together [02266].
⁸ And the curious girdle [02805] of the ephod [0642], which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work [04639] thereof; even of gold [02091], of blue [08504], and purple [0713], and scarlet [08144] [08438], and fine twined [07806] linen [08336].
⁹ And thou shalt take [03947] two [08147] onyx [07718] stones [068], and grave [06605] on them the names [08034] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478]:
¹⁰ Six [08337] of their names [08034] on one [0259] stone [068], and the other six [08337] names [08034] of the rest [03498] on the other [08145] stone [068], according to their birth [08435].
¹¹ With the work [04639] of an engraver [02796] in stone [068], like the engravings [06603] of a signet [02368], shalt thou engrave [06605] the two [08147] stones [068] with the names [08034] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: thou shalt make [06213] them to be set [04142] in ouches [04865] of gold [02091].
¹² And thou shalt put [07760] the two [08147] stones [068] upon the shoulders [03802] of the ephod [0646] for stones [068] of memorial [02146] unto the children [01121] of Israel [03478]: and Aaron [0175] shall bear [05375] their names [08034] before [06440] the LORD [03068] upon his two [08147] shoulders [03802] for a memorial [02146].

² And he went out [03318] to meet [06440] Asa [0609], and said [0559] unto him, Hear [08085] ye me, Asa [0609], and all Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144]; The LORD [03068] is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek [01875] him, he will be found [04672] of you; but if ye forsake [05800] him, he will forsake [05800] you.
³ Now for a long [07227] season [03117] Israel [03478] hath been without [03808] the true [0571] God [0430], and without a teaching [03384] priest [03548], and without law [08451].
⁴ But when they in their trouble [06862] did turn [07725] unto the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], and sought [01245] him, he was found [04672] of them.

¹¹ Then shall the children [01121] of Judah [03063] and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] be gathered [06908] together [03162], and appoint [07760] themselves one [0259] head [07218], and they shall come up [05927] out of the land [0776]: for great [01419] shall be the day [03117] of Jezreel [03157].

⁷ But I will have mercy [07355] upon the house [01004] of Judah [03063], and will save [03467] them by the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and will not save [03467] them by bow [07198], nor by sword [02719], nor by battle [04421], by horses [05483], nor by horsemen [06571].

⁵ Afterward [0310] shall the children [01121] of Israel [03478] return [07725], and seek [01245] the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and David [01732] their king [04428]; and shall fear [06342] the LORD [03068] and his goodness [02898] in the latter [0319] days [03117].

¹ The word [01697] of the LORD [03068] that came unto Hosea [01954], the son [01121] of Beeri [0882], in the days [03117] of Uzziah [05818], Jotham [03147], Ahaz [0271], and Hezekiah [03169], kings [04428] of Judah [03063], and in the days [03117] of Jeroboam [03379] the son [01121] of Joash [03101], king [04428] of Israel [03478].
² The beginning [08462] of the word [01696] of the LORD [03068] by Hosea [01954]. And the LORD [03068] said [0559] to Hosea [01954], Go [03212], take [03947] unto thee a wife [0802] of whoredoms [02183] and children [03206] of whoredoms [02183]: for the land [0776] hath committed great [02181] whoredom [02181], departing from [0310] the LORD [03068].
³ So he went [03212] and took [03947] Gomer [01586] the daughter [01323] of Diblaim [01691]; which conceived [02029], and bare [03205] him a son [01121].
⁴ And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Call [07121] his name [08034] Jezreel [03157]; for yet a little [04592] while, and I will avenge [06485] the blood [01818] of Jezreel [03157] upon the house [01004] of Jehu [03058], and will cause to cease [07673] the kingdom [04468] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478].
⁵ And it shall come to pass at that day [03117], that I will break [07665] the bow [07198] of Israel [03478] in the valley [06010] of Jezreel [03157].
⁶ And she conceived again [02029], and bare [03205] a daughter [01323]. And God said [0559] unto him, Call [07121] her name [08034] Loruhamah [03819]: for I will no more [03254] have mercy [07355] upon the house [01004] of Israel [03478]; but I will utterly [05375] take them away [05375].
⁷ But I will have mercy [07355] upon the house [01004] of Judah [03063], and will save [03467] them by the LORD [03068] their God [0430], and will not save [03467] them by bow [07198], nor by sword [02719], nor by battle [04421], by horses [05483], nor by horsemen [06571].
⁸ Now when she had weaned [01580] Loruhamah [03819], she conceived [02029], and bare [03205] a son [01121].
⁹ Then said [0559] God, Call [07121] his name [08034] Loammi [03818]: for ye are not my people [05971], and I will not be your God.
¹⁰ Yet the number [04557] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] shall be as the sand [02344] of the sea [03220], which cannot be measured [04058] nor numbered [05608]; and it shall come to pass, that in the place [04725] where it was said [0559] unto them, Ye are not my people [05971], there it shall be said [0559] unto them, Ye are the sons [01121] of the living [02416] God [0410].
¹¹ Then shall the children [01121] of Judah [03063] and the children [01121] of Israel [03478] be gathered [06908] together [03162], and appoint [07760] themselves one [0259] head [07218], and they shall come up [05927] out of the land [0776]: for great [01419] shall be the day [03117] of Jezreel [03157].

⁷ And she shall follow [07291] after her lovers [0157], but she shall not overtake [05381] them; and she shall seek [01245] them, but shall not find [04672] them: then shall she say [0559], I will go [03212] and return [07725] to my first [07223] husband [0376]; for then was it better [02896] with me than now [06258].

⁴ And the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Call [07121] his name [08034] Jezreel [03157]; for yet a little [04592] while, and I will avenge [06485] the blood [01818] of Jezreel [03157] upon the house [01004] of Jehu [03058], and will cause to cease [07673] the kingdom [04468] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478].

⁵ And they said [0559] unto him, Ask counsel [07592], we pray thee, of God [0430], that we may know [03045] whether our way [01870] which we go [01980] shall be prosperous [06743].

⁵ And the man [0376] Micah [04318] had an house [01004] of gods [0430], and made [06213] an ephod [0646], and teraphim [08655], and consecrated [04390] [03027] one [0259] of his sons [01121], who became his priest [03548].

⁷ And David [01732] said [0559] to Abiathar [054] the priest [03548], Ahimelech's [0288] son [01121], I pray thee, bring me hither [05066] the ephod [0646]. And Abiathar [054] brought [05066] thither the ephod [0646] to David [01732].

⁹ And David [01732] knew [03045] that Saul [07586] secretly practised [02790] mischief [07451] against him; and he said [0559] to Abiathar [054] the priest [03548], Bring hither [05066] the ephod [0646].

¹ Now when all this was finished [03615], all Israel [03478] that were present [04672] went out [03318] to the cities [05892] of Judah [03063], and brake [07665] the images [04676] in pieces [07665], and cut down [01438] the groves [0842], and threw down [05422] the high places [01116] and the altars [04196] out of all Judah [03063] and Benjamin [01144], in Ephraim [0669] also and Manasseh [04519], until they had utterly destroyed [03615] them all. Then all the children [01121] of Israel [03478] returned [07725], every man [0376] to his possession [0272], into their own cities [05892].

² And Asa [0609] did [06213] that which was good [02896] and right [03477] in the eyes [05869] of the LORD [03068] his God [0430]:

¹⁴ And he brake in pieces [07665] the images [04676], and cut down [03772] the groves [0842], and filled [04390] their places [04725] with the bones [06106] of men [0120].

⁴ He removed [05493] the high places [01116], and brake [07665] the images [04676], and cut down [03772] the groves [0842], and brake in pieces [03807] the brasen [05178] serpent [05175] that Moses [04872] had made [06213]: for unto those days [03117] the children [01121] of Israel [03478] did burn incense [06999] to it: and he called [07121] it Nehushtan [05180].

²³ For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].

¹⁰ And they set them up [05324] images [04676] and groves [0842] in every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086]:

²⁶ And they brought forth [03318] the images [04676] out of the house [01004] of Baal [01168], and burned [08313] them.
²⁷ And they brake down [05422] the image [04676] of Baal [01168], and brake down [05422] the house [01004] of Baal [01168], and made [07760] it a draught house [04163] [04280] unto this day [03117].
²⁸ Thus Jehu [03058] destroyed [08045] Baal [01168] out of Israel [03478].

² And he wrought [06213] evil [07451] in the sight [05869] of the LORD [03068]; but not like his father [01], and like his mother [0517]: for he put away [05493] the image [04676] of Baal [01168] that his father [01] had made [06213].

²³ For they also built [01129] them high places [01116], and images [04676], and groves [0842], on every high [01364] hill [01389], and under every green [07488] tree [06086].

²² Neither shalt thou set thee up [06965] any image [04676]; which the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] hateth [08130].

¹ Ye shall make [06213] you no idols [0457] nor graven image [06459], neither rear you up [06965] a standing image [04676], neither shall ye set up [05414] any image [04906] of stone [068] in your land [0776], to bow down [07812] unto it: for I am the LORD [03068] your God [0430].

²⁴ Thou shalt not bow down [07812] to their gods [0430], nor serve [05647] them, nor do [06213] after their works [04639]: but thou shalt utterly [02040] overthrow [02040] them, and quite [07665] break down [07665] their images [04676].