1 Kings 15:30

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 15:30 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation wherewith he provoked Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; because of his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Because of the sinnes of Ieroboam which he committed, and wherewith he made Israel to sinne, by his prouocation, wherewith he prouoked the Lord God of Israel.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had sinned, and wherewith he had made Israel to sin, and for the offence, wherewith he provoked the Lord the God of Israel.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation with which he provoked to anger Jehovah, God of Israel.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation with which he provoked YHWH, God of Israel, to anger.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he committed and by which he led Israel to sin, because he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he caused Israel to sin, by his provocation which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; by his provocation with which he provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation with which he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    This happened because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had made Israel commit, and because he had made the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and wherewith he made Israel to sin; because of his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.

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בְּכַעְס֕וֹ
kaʻaç
H3708
“in/at · anger · his”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Preposition + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3707

TWOT: 1016a

anger, vexation, provocation, grief - vexation - of men - of God - vexation, grief, frustration
  1. עַל ʻal H5921 “upon” Preposition
  2. חַטֹּ֤אות chaṭṭâʼâh H2403 “sin offerings of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
  3. יָרָבְעָם֙ Yârobʻâm H3379 “Jeroboam” Noun, Proper
  4. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  5. חָטָ֔א châṭâʼ H2398 “to sin” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  6. וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “and · which” Conjunction + Particle, Relative
  7. הֶחֱטִ֖יא châṭâʼ H2398 “to sin” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  9. יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper
  10. אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  11. הִכְעִ֔יס kaʻaç H3707 “to be angry” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  12. אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
  13. יְהוָ֖ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  14. אֱלֹהֵ֥י ʼĕlôhîym H430 “God(s) of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  15. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “Israel” Noun, Proper

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

16
words
11
distinct lemmas
Historical
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בְּכַעְס֕וֹ anger H3708 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בְּכַעְס֕וֹ anger H3708 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 7 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 5 particles

Verb forms

  • חָטָ֔א Qal · Perfect
  • הֶחֱטִ֖יא Hiphil · Perfect
  • הִכְעִ֔יס Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • חָטָ֔א to sin H2398 ×2
  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל Israel H3478 ×2
  • אֲשֶׁ֣ר which H834 ×3

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 31 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 16 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 15:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • 1 Kings 15:26 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
  • 1 Kings 14:9–16 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:
  • 1 Kings 14:22 Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 22 words vs World English Bible 31. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 1 Kings 15:30 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

עַל חַטֹּ֤אות יָרָבְעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָטָ֔א וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶחֱטִ֖יא אֶת יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בְּכַעְס֕וֹ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הִכְעִ֔יס אֶת יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Kings 15:30 Septuagint · lemma form

περί ὁ ἁμαρτία ιεροβοαμ ὡς ἐκἁμαρτάνω ὁ ἰσραήλ καί ἐν ὁ παροργισμός αὐτός ὅς παραὀργίζω ὁ κύριος θεός ὁ ἰσραήλ

for the sins of Jeroboam, who led Israel into sin, even by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    עַל חוֹבֵי יָרָבְעָם דְחַב וּדְחַיֵב יַת יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּאַרְגְזָיוּתֵיהּ דְאַרְגֵיז קֳדָם יְיָ אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 1 Kings 15:30 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

1Ki 15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

Ver. 30. Because of the sins.] Sin is the mother of misery. Jeroboam by idolatry thought to have established his kingdom, but he ruined it.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

1Ki 15:30. Because of the sins of Jeroboam — Thus that same wicked policy which he used to establish the kingdom in his family, proved his and their ruin; which is very frequently the event of ungodly counsels.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

15:30-31 Jeroboam had provoked the Lord’s condemnation and judgment. His sins were perpetuated by his son Nadab, and Baasha’s accession inaugurated a new dynasty that further weakened Israel’s spiritual condition (15:34).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

By causing the people to commit idolatry with his calves, and so provoking God to anger.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

30. because of [R.V. for] the sins] In 1Ki_14:16, words very like this clause are found, but the preposition there is a strong compound word, and ‘because of’ was there left as the translation. Here the original gives another and lighter preposition. Hence the seemingly unnecessary change, by which however the English reader is made to notice a difference of the Hebrew.

by [R.V. because of] his provocation] Cf. Deu_32:19; 2Ki_23:26.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Which he made Israel sin; so that same wicked policy which he used to establish the kingdom in his family proved his and their ruin; which is very frequently the event of ungodly counsels.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel to sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger. Cf. 1Ki_16:2, 1Ki_16:7, 1Ki_16:13, 1Ki_16:26. etc.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Because - So that same wicked policy which he used to establish the kingdom in his family, proved his and their ruin: which is very frequently the event of ungodly counsels.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 16 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kaʻaç (“anger”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “anger” (kaʻaç) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Deuteronomy 32:19 shares the word «anger» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “to sin” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
  5. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  6. The verb «חָטָ֔א» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  7. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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