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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Ahab (KI1 16:28) · Baal (NUM 22:41) · Hezekiah (KI2 16:20)
OET-LV And_he_returned and_he/it_built DOM the_high_places which Ḩizqiyyāh his/its_father he_had_destroyed and_he_set_up altars to_Baˊal and_he/it_made an_ʼAshērāh_pole just_as ʼAḩʼāⱱ the_king_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) he_had_done and_he_bowed_down to/from_all/each/any/every the_soldier/messenger_of the_heavens and_he_served DOM_them.
OET (OET-RV) In fact he went backwards from his father and rebuilt the hilltop shrines that Hizkiyah (Hezekiah) had destroyed, and he made altars for Ba’al, and he made an Asherah pole, just like Yisrael’s (Israel) King Ahav had, and he worshipped the constellations and followed astrology.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys
וַיָּ֗שָׁב וַיִּ֨בֶן֙
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_returned and=he/it_built DOM the_high,places which/who destroyed Ḩizqiyyāh his/its=father and,he_set_up altars to,Baal and=he/it_made ʼₐshērāh just=as he/it_had_made ʼAḩʼāⱱ king Yisrael and,he_bowed_down to/from=all/each/any/every host_of the=heavens and,he_served DOM=them )
See how you translated the similar expression in 1:11. Alternate translation: [And he once more built] or [And he rebuilt]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
לְכָל־צְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם
to/from=all/each/any/every host_of (Some words not found in UHB: and,he_returned and=he/it_built DOM the_high,places which/who destroyed Ḩizqiyyāh his/its=father and,he_set_up altars to,Baal and=he/it_made ʼₐshērāh just=as he/it_had_made ʼAḩʼāⱱ king Yisrael and,he_bowed_down to/from=all/each/any/every host_of the=heavens and,he_served DOM=them )
To translate the expression the whole army of the heavens here and in verse 5, see how you translated the similar expression in 17:16. Alternate translation: [to all the lights in the sky] or [to the heavenly bodies here]
OET-LV And_he_returned and_he/it_built DOM the_high_places which Ḩizqiyyāh his/its_father he_had_destroyed and_he_set_up altars to_Baˊal and_he/it_made an_ʼAshērāh_pole just_as ʼAḩʼāⱱ the_king_of Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) he_had_done and_he_bowed_down to/from_all/each/any/every the_soldier/messenger_of the_heavens and_he_served DOM_them.
OET (OET-RV) In fact he went backwards from his father and rebuilt the hilltop shrines that Hizkiyah (Hezekiah) had destroyed, and he made altars for Ba’al, and he made an Asherah pole, just like Yisrael’s (Israel) King Ahav had, and he worshipped the constellations and followed astrology.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.
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