29Then I said to them: What is this high place you go to?' " (It is called Bamah to this day.)


In Context

26 I let them become defiled through their gifts-the sacrifice of every firstborn -that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD .'

27 "Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In this also your fathers blasphemed me by forsaking me:

28 When I brought them into the land I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that provoked me to anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.

29 Then I said to them: What is this high place you go to?' " (It is called Bamah to this day.)

30 "Therefore say to the house of Israel: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did and lust after their vile images?

31 When you offer your gifts-the sacrifice of your sons in the fire-you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD , I will not let you inquire of me.

Ezekiel 20:29 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:29Then I said unto them, What [is] the high place whereunto ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:29And I said to them: What meaneth the high place to which you go? and the name thereof was called High-place even to this day.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:29Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:29And I said unto them, What is the high place whither ye go? And the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:29Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:29Then I said to them, What is the high place to which ye go? and its name is called Bamah to this day.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:29Then I said to them, What does the high place where you go mean? So its name is called Bamah to this day.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:29And I say unto them: What is the high place whither ye are going in? And its name is called 'high place' to this day.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:29Then I said to them, What is the high place whereunto you go? And the name whereof is called Bamah to this day.