2 Chronicles 28:2

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Instead, he followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even made cast images for the Baals.

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  • Exod 34:17 : 17 Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.
  • Judg 2:11 : 11 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.
  • Judg 2:13 : 13 They abandoned the LORD and worshipped Baal and the Ashtaroth.
  • 1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 As if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he also married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. 32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. 33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole, and he did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
  • 2 Kgs 10:26-28 : 26 They brought out the sacred pillars of the temple of Baal and burned them. 27 They also tore down the sacred pillar of Baal, demolished the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, which it remains to this day. 28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel.
  • 2 Chr 21:6 : 6 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married a daughter of Ahab. So he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 22:3-4 : 3 He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him to do evil. 4 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after his father's death, leading to his ruin.
  • Hos 2:13 : 13 I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 From there I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up from the land of Egypt.
  • Lev 19:4 : 4 Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

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    1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

    2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. But he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God as David his ancestor had done.

    3 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

    4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 28:1
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    1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. However, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD like his ancestor David.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    52 Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.

    53 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father, his mother, and Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
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    2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel.

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

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    21 Amon walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served and worshipped the idols his father had worshipped.

    22 He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

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    28 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

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    2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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    21 Ahaz took some of the treasures from the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.

    22 During his time of distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

    23 He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, for he said, 'Because the gods of the kings of Aram help them, I will sacrifice to them so they may help me.' But they were the downfall of him and all of Israel.

    24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and broke them into pieces. He shut the doors of the house of the LORD and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

    25 In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

    26 The rest of his acts and all of his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

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    18 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab's daughter. He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

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    4 In his presence, they tore down the altars of the Baals, and he cut down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols, crushing them into powder, and he scattered the dust over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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