1 Kings 16:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because 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.

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  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
  • 1 Sam 12:21 : 21 And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.
  • 1 Kgs 15:30 : 30 Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.
  • Isa 41:29 : 29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.
  • Jer 10:3-5 : 3 For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe. 4 They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved. 5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
  • Jer 10:15 : 15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
  • Jonah 2:8 : 8 When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
  • Rom 1:21-23 : 21 Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. 22 Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, 23 And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
  • 1 Cor 10:19-20 : 19 Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything? 20 What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.
  • 2 Kgs 17:15 : 15 And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

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  • 1 Kgs 16:14
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    14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 16:5-9
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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.

    9And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26-27
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    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.

    27Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 16:1-3
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    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 15:28-31
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    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.

    31Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 16:11-12
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    11And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.

    12So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;

  • 1 Kgs 15:33-34
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    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.

    34He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
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    22And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

  • 1 Kgs 16:19-20
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    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.

    20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:30-33
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    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.

    33And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2-3
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    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.

    3So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
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    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 17:21-22
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    21For Israel was broken off from the family of David, and they made Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, king, who, driving them away from the laws of the Lord, made them do a great sin.

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

  • 1 Kgs 13:32
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    32For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

  • 2 Kgs 1:18
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    18Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
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    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 14:24
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    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 15:24
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    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 15:9
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 21:12-13
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    12And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

    13But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
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    9But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
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    6But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Jer 32:32
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    32Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 14:22
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    22And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.

  • 1 Kgs 15:16
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    16Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.