1 Kings 22:53
51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
52 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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Compare
- BSB
- Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
- KJV
- For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
- WEB
- He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.
- ASV
- And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
- DARBY
- And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
- BLB
- For he served the Baal and bowed down to him and provoked to anger YHWH, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
- ÅB
- han dyrket Ba'al og tilba ham og vakte Herrens, Israels Guds harme, aldeles som hans far hadde gjort.
[^1]: spådomsånden. - OTB
- Han tjente og tilba Baal og vakte Herrens, Israels Guds, vrede, akkurat som hans far hadde gjort.
- B1930
- han dyrket Ba'al og tilbad ham og vakte Herrens, Israels Guds harme, aldeles som hans far hadde gjort.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 16:30–32
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
Read in context2 Kings 1:2
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
Read in contextPsalms 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
Read in contextEzekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Read in context2 Kings 3:2
And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
Read in contextIsaiah 65:3
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Read in context1 Kings 21:29
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.
Read in context1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
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