For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: He shakes arrows, he consults idols, he examines animal livers.

因为巴比伦王站在岔路那里，在两条路口上要占卜。他摇签求问神像，察看牺牲的肝；

因为巴比伦王站在岔路上，在两条路口占卜。他摇签求问神像，察看肝脏；

因为巴比伦王站在岔路上，在两条路口占卜。他摇签求问神像，察看肝脏；

巴比伦王将站在两路的岔口，摇签求问他的神像，察看祭牲的肝。

因为巴比伦王站在分叉路口，在两条路口上占卜、摇签、求问神像，察看动物的肝。

因為巴比倫王站在岔路那裏，在兩條路口上要占卜。他搖籤求問神像，察看犧牲的肝；

因為巴比倫王站在岔路上，在兩條路口占卜。他搖籤求問神像，察看肝臟；

因為巴比倫王站在岔路上，在兩條路口占卜。他搖籤求問神像，察看肝臟；

巴比倫王將站在兩路的岔口，搖籤求問他的神像，察看祭牲的肝。

因為巴比倫王站在分叉路口，在兩條路口上占卜、搖籤、求問神像，察看動物的肝。

因為巴比倫王站在岔路口，在兩條路頭上行占卜；他搖箭籤，求問神像，察看祭牲的肝兒。

蓋巴比倫王、止於歧路卜之、搖以矢、問偶像、察牲肝、

蓋巴比倫王躑躅歧途、不知所之、故卜以矢、問偶像、察牲肝、以決從違。

蓋巴比倫王立於道分歧之處、於二道之首、欲以占卜、遂搖矢問偶像、察牲肝、

For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.

The king of Babylon will stop at the place where the two roads meet. He will look for a special sign. He will cast lots by pulling arrows out of a bag. He will ask his gods for advice. And he will look carefully at the liver of a sheep.

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.

The king of Babylon now stands at the fork, uncertain whether to attack Jerusalem or Rabbah. He calls his magicians to look for omens. They cast lots by shaking arrows from the quiver. They inspect the livers of animal sacrifices.

For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the household idols, he looks at the liver.

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the road, at the fork of the two roads, to use divination: he shakes the arrows, he consults the images, he looks at the liver.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

For the king of Babylon stands at the split in the road, at the fork of the two roads, to practice divination: he shakes the arrows, consults the idols, and observes the liver.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made[ his] arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

The dice are thrown into the lap, but their every decision is from the LORD.

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

For the household gods have spoken wickedness, the soothsayers have seen a lie, and as for the dreamers, they have disclosed emptiness and give comfort in vain. Therefore the people set out like sheep and become scattered because they have no shepherd.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

For there is no spell against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. At this time it must be said of Jacob and of Israel,‘ Look at what God has done!’

When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them,“ What are you doing?”

Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the LORD’s temple.

They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”

Now as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit that enabled her to foretell the future by supernatural means. She brought her owners a great profit by fortune- telling.

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen,“ Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

He said,“ You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me,‘ What do you want?’”

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fee for divination in their hand. They came to Balaam and reported to him the words of Balak.

The divine verdict is in the words of the king, his pronouncements must not act treacherously against justice.