1 Kings 16:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Copying 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 16:19 : 19 Because 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.
  • 1 Kgs 16:13 : 13 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.
  • 1 Kgs 12:26-33 : 26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now the kingdom will go back to the family of David: 27 If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah. 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. 30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan. 31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people. 32 And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made. 33 He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 16:2 : 2 Because 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;
  • 1 Kgs 16:7 : 7 And 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.
  • Ps 31:6 : 6 I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.
  • Jer 8:19 : 19 The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?
  • Jer 10:3 : 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.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
  • Jer 18:15 : 15 For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
  • 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 16:13
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    13 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:30
    81%

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    81%

    52 He 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    81%

    11 He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:25
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    25 And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
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    24 He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:19
    80%

    19 Because 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 15:28
    79%

    28 He 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 17:21-22
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    79%

    21 For 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.

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    79%

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

  • 1 Kgs 14:16
    78%

    16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    78%

    2 He 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 21:26
    78%

    26 He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

  • 1 Kgs 16:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27 Now 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?

    28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    77%

    18 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
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    77%

    2 He 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.

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
    77%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    77%

    9 And 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 16:30-33
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    30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

    31 And 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.

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

    33 And 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 16:2
    76%

    2 Because 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;

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    76%

    6 But 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 10:31
    76%

    31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 13:34
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    75%

    3 But 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 14:9
    75%

    9 But 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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
    74%

    22 And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

    22 Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

  • 2 Chr 21:6
    74%

    6 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did 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 Chr 28:2
    74%

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

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    73%

    18 He 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 Chr 21:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 And 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,

    13 But 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:

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    73%

    11 Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3 And 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.

  • Mic 6:16
    72%

    16 For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    72%

    2 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:6
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    6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    72%

    2 He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:19
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    19 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 10:29
    72%

    29 But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.