complete verse (2 Kings 16:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of 2 Kings 16:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “He did very bad things surpassing the kings of Israel. He would even make his child pass through fire something that God hated. He followed the bad behaviors of those communities God had been chasing from that country which the people of Israel migrated to.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “He went the way the kings of Israel went. Like the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites because of their repulsive work, like them he even offered his own son as a sacrifice in the fire.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even sacrificed his child in the fire. He followed the detestable doings of the nations that the LORD had-caused- the Israelinhon -to-drive-out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “Instead, he was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He even sacrificed his son as an offering to idols. That was worse than the disgusting things that the people who previously lived there had done, people whom Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis were advancing through the land.” (Source: Translation for Translators)