InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse 2 Ki C1 C2 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25
2 Ki 3 V1 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Baal (NUM 22:41) · God
OET-LV And_he_did the_evil in/on_both_eyes_of YHWH only not like_father_of_his and_like_mother_of_his and_he_removed DOM the_sacred_pillar_of (the)_Baˊal which his/its_father he_had_made.
OET (OET-RV) He did what Yahweh had said was evil, but not as bad as his father and mother had been, and he did remove the pillar of Ba’al that his father had made.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַיַּעֲשֶׂ֤ה הָרַע֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה
(Some words not found in UHB: and,he_did the,evil in/on=both_eyes_of YHWH only not like,father_of,his and,like,mother_of,his and,he_removed DOM sacred_pillar_of of_(the),Baal which/who he/it_had_made his/its=father )
See how you translated the similar expression “in your eyes” in 1:13. Alternate translation: [And he did what Yahweh considered to be evil]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
הָרַע֙
the,evil
The author is using the adjective evil as a noun to mean things of a certain kind. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate this adjective with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: [evil things] or [what was evil]
OET-LV And_he_did the_evil in/on_both_eyes_of YHWH only not like_father_of_his and_like_mother_of_his and_he_removed DOM the_sacred_pillar_of (the)_Baˊal which his/its_father he_had_made.
OET (OET-RV) He did what Yahweh had said was evil, but not as bad as his father and mother had been, and he did remove the pillar of Ba’al that his father had made.
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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