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BrLXXΚαὶ ἐγένετο μετὰ τὸ ἐλθεῖν Ἀμασίαν πατάξαντος τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν, καὶ ἤνεγκε πρὸς αὐτὸν τοὺς θεοὺς υἱῶν Σηεὶρ, καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτοὺς αὐτῷ εἰς θεοὺς, καὶ ἐναντίον αὐτῶν προσεκύνει, καὶ αὐτὸς αὐτοῖς ἔθυε. (Kai egeneto meta to elthein Amasian pataxantos taʸn Idoumaian, kai aʸnegke pros auton tous theous huiōn Saʸeir, kai estaʸsen autous autōi eis theous, kai enantion autōn prosekunei, kai autos autois ethue. )
BrTrAnd it came to pass, after Amasias had returned from smiting Idumea, that he brought home the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up for himself as gods, and bowed down before them, and he sacrificed to them.
ULTAnd it happened after Amaziah had come from striking the Edomites, and he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and set them up for himself to be gods. And before them he bowed down and to them he made sacrifices.
USTWhen Amaziah returned to Jerusalem after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that his enemies had worshiped. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to worship them and offered sacrifices to them.
BSB § When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.
WEBBENow after Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them and burnt incense to them.
NETWhen Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir and made them his personal gods. He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices.
LSVAnd it comes to pass after the coming in of Amaziah from striking the Edomites, that he brings in the gods of the sons of Seir, and establishes them for gods for himself, and bows himself before them, and he makes incense to them.
FBVWhen Amaziah returned from killing the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir and set them up as his own gods, worshiped them, and offered sacrifices to them.
T4TWhen Amaziah returned to Jerusalem after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to worship them and offered sacrifices to them.
LEBAnd it happened that after Amaziah came back from killing the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and he stood them up to himself as gods and bowed down before them and make smoke offerings for them.
BBENow when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.
JPSNow it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and prostrated himself before them, and offered unto them.
ASVNow it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
DRABut Amasias after he had slain the Edomites, set up the gods of the children of Seir, which he had brought thence, to be his gods, and adored them, and burnt incense to them.
YLTAnd it cometh to pass, after the coming in of Amaziah from smiting the Edomites, that he bringeth in the gods of the sons of Seir, and establisheth them to him for gods, and before them doth bow himself, and to them he maketh perfume.
DrbyAnd it came to pass after Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the [fn]gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his [fn]gods, and bowed himself down before them, and burned incense to them.
RVNow it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
WbstrNow it came to pass, after that Amaziah had come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed himself before them, and burned incense to them.
KJB-1769¶ Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.
KJB-1611¶ Now it came to passe, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that hee brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them vp to be his gods, and bowed down himselfe before them, and burned incense vnto them. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
BshpsAnd it chaunced after that Amaziahu was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them vp to be his gods, and bowed him selfe before them, and burned incense vnto them. (And it chanced after that Amaziahu was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed himself before them, and burned incense unto them.)
GnvaNow after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them vp to be his gods, and worshipped them, and burned incense vnto them. (Now after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and worshipped them, and burned incense unto them. )
CvdlAnd whan Amasias came agayne from the slaughter of the Edomites, he broughte the goddes of the children of Seir, and made them his goddes, and worshipped before them, & brent incense vnto them. (And when Amasias came again from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and made them his gods, and worshipped before them, and burnt incense unto them.)
WyclAnd Amasie, after the sleyng of Idumeis, and after that he hadde brouyt the goddis of the sones of Seir, ordeynede hem `in to goddis to hym silf, and worschipide hem, and brente encense to hem. (And Amasie, after the sleyng of Idumeis, and after that he had brought the gods of the sons of Seir, ordained them `in to gods to himself, and worshipped them, and burnt encense to them.)
LuthUnd da Amazia wiederkam von der Edomiter Schlacht, brachte er die Götter der Kinder von Seir und stellete sie ihm zu Göttern; und betete an vor ihnen und räucherte ihnen. (And there Amazia came_back from the/of_the Edomiter Schlacht, brought he the gods the/of_the children from Seir and stellete they/she/them him to gods; and prayed at before/in_front_of to_them and räucherte to_them.)
ClVgAmasias vero post cædem Idumæorum, et allatos deos filiorum Seir, statuit illos in deos sibi, et adorabat eos, et illis adolebat incensum. (Amasias vero after cædem Idumæorum, and allatos deos of_children Seir, statuit those in deos sibi, and adorabat them, and illis adolebat incensum. )
25:14-15 Conquerors sometimes worshiped the gods of a vanquished nation, wrongly believing that the gods of the defeated people had helped them to victory. Amaziah held this pagan mindset; he did not believe that the Lord is the only true God (see Isa 40:18-28; 42:8; Jer 10:1-16).
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was after came Amaziah from,slaughtering DOM ʼEdōmites and=he/it_brought DOM gods sons_of Sēˊīr and,set_~_up,them to=him/it as,gods and,before,face/front,them bowed_down and,to,them burned_incense )
This phrase is used here to mark the beginning of a new part of the story. If your language has a way for doing this, you could consider using it here.
(Occurrence 0) the slaughter of the Edomites
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was after came Amaziah from,slaughtering DOM ʼEdōmites and=he/it_brought DOM gods sons_of Sēˊīr and,set_~_up,them to=him/it as,gods and,before,face/front,them bowed_down and,to,them burned_incense )
Alternate translation: “slaughtering the Edomites” or “killing the Edomites”
(Occurrence 0) the gods of the people of Seir
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was after came Amaziah from,slaughtering DOM ʼEdōmites and=he/it_brought DOM gods sons_of Sēˊīr and,set_~_up,them to=him/it as,gods and,before,face/front,them bowed_down and,to,them burned_incense )
Alternate translation: “the gods that the people of Seir worshiped”
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was after came Amaziah from,slaughtering DOM ʼEdōmites and=he/it_brought DOM gods sons_of Sēˊīr and,set_~_up,them to=him/it as,gods and,before,face/front,them bowed_down and,to,them burned_incense )
These are symbolic acts of worship.
(Occurrence 0) the gods
(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_was after came Amaziah from,slaughtering DOM ʼEdōmites and=he/it_brought DOM gods sons_of Sēˊīr and,set_~_up,them to=him/it as,gods and,before,face/front,them bowed_down and,to,them burned_incense )
This expresses the popular opinion of the day that the gods determined who won battles.
While the location of Mount Sinai is arguably the most significant unresolved debate remaining in Bible geography, it is this author’s estimation that the borders of Edom and Seir (also called “Mount Seir” and “the highlands of Seir”) have actually led to a greater amount of confusion regarding where related events took place. This confusion stems primarily from a key misunderstanding widely held about Edom and Seir: that Seir was located either solely or primarily on the eastern side of the Arabah (the low valley dividing virtually all of Israel from northern end of the Jordan River to the city of Elath on the Red Sea). But this author is convinced that, prior to the later Old Testament, all biblical references to Seir regard it as a sub-region within the greater area of Edom, and it was located on the western side of the Arabah. To be clear, the biblical accounts consistently affirm that the nation of Edom (the descendants of Esau) occupied the eastern side of the Arabah and even had their own rulers before the Israelites had kings (Genesis 36), as shown on this map. But this area is not typically what is intended when the biblical writers use the term Seir. (A nearly exhaustive list of references to Seir as a geographical term includes: Genesis 14:6; 32-33; 36; Numbers 24:18; Deuteronomy 1:2, 44; 2:1-12, 22-29; 33:2; Joshua 11:17; 12:7; 24:4; Judges 5:4; 1 Chronicles 1:38; 4:42; 2 Chronicles 20:10-23; 25:11-14; Isaiah 21:11; Ezekiel 35:2-15.) Also, it should be noted that the assumption that Seir was located east of the Arabah is at least as old as the writings of Josephus (Ant., IV, iv, 7) immediately after the New Testament, for he seems to assume this. Yet, Josephus’s overall reliability regarding the location of the events of the wilderness wanderings (and thus Seir) is called into question by his misidentification of Mount Hor with Jebel Nebi Harun (see “The Israelites’ Journeys in the Wilderness” map), so it is very possible he was also mistaken about Seir. Similarly, though it is commonly concluded that the term Seir can be found in the name ash-Sharat, it should be noted that the Arabic term for the eastern mountains of Edom was likely applied to the region several hundred years after the close of the Old Testament era and the time of Josephus, so it is possible that the term Seir had long since shifted to the eastern mountains by this time. Also, while archeological data confirms that eastern Edom was populated with a settled civilization before western Edom, this data likely would not accurately reflect habitation by semi-nomadic peoples such as Esau and his earlier descendants, whose settlements would have been largely temporary and unlikely to be recovered. In terms of biblical evidence, however, several verses support and even seem to require that Seir be located on the western side of the Arabah (Deuteronomy 2:1; Joshua 12:7; 1 Chronicles 4:42-43; see also Joshua 15:1) and also that Seir was only a sub-region within the larger Edomite nation (Ezekiel 35:15). And while some verses seem ambiguous regarding the location of Seir, none of them offer compelling testimony that it should be located east of the Arabah. A few passages (for example, 2 Chronicles 25; Ezekiel 35 [though see v. 15]) seem at times to use the term Seir to refer to all of Edom, but they never use it to refer only to eastern Edom. Instead, they appear to use the term in a similar way that the biblical writers sometimes symbolically use the term Ephraim to refer to all the northern Israelite tribes (Isaiah 7-11; Jeremiah 31; Hosea 5-14; Zechariah 9-10), though it was widely understood that Ephraim only occupied a specific portion of tribal territory within the land of Israel. If the borders of Seir, however, are relocated west of the Arabah, as shown here at the time of Joshua’s allotment of Canaan, several related stories in the Bible make better sense. For example, the journeys of Jacob and Esau as they meet each other and part once again make the best sense if Esau was arriving from a location on the west side of the Jordan River (Genesis 32-33; also see “Jacob Returns to Canaan” and “Jacob Travels to Southern Canaan” maps). Likewise it is easiest to envision the Israelites skirting the land of Seir after turning back from Kadesh (Deuteronomy 2:1; see “The Israelites’ Journeys in the Wilderness” map) if Seir was located west of the Arabah. Joshua’s description of Judah’s southern border also makes the most sense if Seir (and thus Edom) was located west of the Arabah (Joshua 15:1). In the time of Hezekiah, a western location for Seir makes it easiest to envision a company of 500 Simeonites exterminating a remnant of Amalekites there and settling in their place (1 Chronicles 4:42-43; see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Finally, the prophet Ezekiel cursed the Edomites for encroaching far north of Judah’s southern border after the Babylonians ravaged the land (Ezekiel 35), and this is easiest to envision if the Edomites already occupied land immediately south of Judah. And by way of extrapolation, if it is to be assumed that the Horites, who formerly inhabited Seir (Deuteronomy 2:12), took their name from Mount Hor or that Mount Hor was named after them, then it is likely that this peak where Aaron died was located somewhere within the region of Seir as it is shown here (see “The Israelites’ Journeys in the Wilderness” map).
