2 Kings 8:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:26 : 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 You are to see that the family of Ahab your master is cut off, so that I may take from Jezebel payment for the blood of my servants the prophets, and for the blood of all the servants of the Lord. 8 For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 3 He 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 21:13 : 13 And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.
  • 2 Chr 18:1 : 1 Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
  • 2 Chr 21:6 : 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 21:13 : 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 Chr 22:1-4 : 1 And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king. 2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri. 3 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing. 4 And 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.
  • Neh 13:25-26 : 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
  • Mic 6:16 : 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.
  • Gen 6:1-5 : 1 And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters, 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them. 3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years. 4 There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name. 5 And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.
  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons. 4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-5 : 1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away. 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.
  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53 : 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 3:2-3 : 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:25-28
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    25In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

    26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.

    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.

    28He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.

  • 2 Chr 21:6
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    6He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51-53
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    51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

    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 16:29-32
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    29In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

    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 Chr 28:1-2
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    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:

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

  • 2 Chr 22:3-5
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    3He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

    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.

    5Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

  • 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 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 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 15:34
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    34He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
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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.

  • 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.

  • 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 15:18
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    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 15:3
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    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 3:1-3
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    1And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

    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.

  • 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 8:17
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    17He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
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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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:25-26
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    25(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

    26He 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.)

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
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    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 Chr 33:2
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-22
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    20He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

    21He 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;

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

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
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    32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Chr 20:35
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    35After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
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    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
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    3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
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    2And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
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    2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.