I can understand your feeling that you must go, and your intense longing for your father’s home. But why have you stolen my gods?”

现在你虽然想你父家，不得不去，为什么又偷了我的神像呢？”

现在你既然这么想念你的父家，不得不去，为什么又偷了我的神明呢？”

现在你既然这么想念你的父家，不得不去，为什么又偷了我的神明呢？”

你思家心切，一定要走，但你为什么要偷走我的神像呢？”

现在你既然渴想你的父家，一定要回去，为什么又偷我的神像呢？”

现在，你因为切切思念你的父家，一定要走，但为什么偷了我的神像呢？”

現在你雖然想你父家，不得不去，為甚麼又偷了我的神像呢？」

現在你既然這麼想念你的父家，不得不去，為甚麼又偷了我的神明呢？」

現在你既然這麼想念你的父家，不得不去，為甚麼又偷了我的神明呢？」

你思家心切，一定要走，但你為什麼要偷走我的神像呢？」

現在你既然渴想你的父家，一定要回去，為甚麼又偷我的神像呢？”

現在你既渴想着你父親的家，急地要去，為甚麼又偷了我的神像呢？』

現在，你因為切切思念你的父家，一定要走，但為什麼偷了我的神像呢？」

今爾雖思父家、不得不歸、奚竊我之神像乎、

夫爾雖戀慕父家、欲歸甚急、奚竊我上帝像乎。

爾慕父家欲歸、姑以為可、但何為竊我神像乎、

Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?”

Now you have run away. You longed to go back to your father’s home. But why did you have to steal the statues of my gods?”

And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family— but why have you stolen my gods?”

Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”

And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

Now you have gone off because you long for your father— but why have you stolen my gods?”

And now,[ though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house,[ yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

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, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father’s house, but why have you stolen my gods?”

At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s household idols and took them with her.

“ What do you mean,‘ What’s the matter?’” Micah replied.“ You’ve taken away all the gods I have made, and my priest, and I have nothing left!”

Say this to those who worship other gods:“ Your so called gods, who did not make the heavens and earth, will vanish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

The Philistines had abandoned their idols there, so David and his men confiscated them.

And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all— only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.

They carried the Ark of God into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside an idol of Dagon.But when the citizens of Ashdod went to see it the next morning, Dagon had fallen with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the Lord! So they took Dagon and put him in his place again.But the next morning the same thing happened— Dagon had fallen face down before the Ark of the Lord again. This time his head and hands had broken off and were lying in the doorway. Only the trunk of his body was left intact.That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor anyone who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod will step on its threshold.Then the Lord’s heavy hand struck the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with a plague of tumors.

Meanwhile, the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn sons, whom the Lord had killed the night before. The Lord had defeated the gods of Egypt that night with great acts of judgment!

On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the Lord!

Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, bow as they are lowered to the ground. They are being hauled away on ox carts. The poor beasts stagger under the weight.Both the idols and their owners are bowed down. The gods cannot protect the people, and the people cannot protect the gods. They go off into captivity together.

But Joash shouted to the mob that confronted him,“ Why are you defending Baal? Will you argue his case? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal truly is a god, let him defend himself and destroy the one who broke down his altar!”

He will set fire to the temples of Egypt’s gods; he will burn the temples and carry the idols away as plunder. He will pick clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd picks fleas from his cloak. And he himself will leave unharmed.