1 Kings 15:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:26 : 26 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.
  • 1 Kgs 12:28-29 : 28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan.
  • 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.
  • 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places. 34 And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:25-30
    6 verses
    90%

    25Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.

    26He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

    27And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.

    28In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.

    29And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

    30Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    84%

    28He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    83%

    9And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
    2 verses
    82%

    52He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

    53He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    82%

    24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    82%

    24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    80%

    11He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    80%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

  • 1 Kgs 15:32-33
    2 verses
    79%

    32And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

    33In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    78%

    18He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 16:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,

    2Because I took you up out of the dust, and made you ruler over my people Israel; and you have gone in the ways of Jeroboam, and made my people Israel do evil, moving me to wrath by their sins;

    3Truly, I will see that Baasha and all his family are completely brushed away; I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    77%

    26Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

  • 1 Kgs 16:19
    76%

    19Because of his sin in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, in going in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    76%

    18He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

    3But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

  • 1 Kgs 16:5-8
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    5Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    6And Baasha went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth at Tirzah; and Elah his son became king in his place.

    7And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.

    8In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah, and he was king for two years.

  • 2 Chr 28:2
    75%

    2But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

  • 1 Kgs 16:13
    75%

    13Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    74%

    32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    73%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 16:30-32
    3 verses
    73%

    30And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

    31And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

    32And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    73%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

    3He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Kgs 8:27
    72%

    27He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    72%

    3And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    71%

    3But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 13:34
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    34And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
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    4And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 17:22
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    22And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;

  • 2 Kgs 21:20
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    20He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:16
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    16And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

  • 2 Chr 12:14
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    14And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    70%

    37He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

  • Jer 52:2
    70%

    2And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.