1 Kings 16:32

KJV1611 – Modern English

He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

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  • 2 Kgs 10:21 : 21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
  • 2 Kgs 10:26-27 : 26 And they brought out the images from the house of Baal, and burned them. 27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

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  • 82%

    29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

    30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.

    31 And as if it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshipped him.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-5
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    80%

    3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

    4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'

    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

  • 33 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.

  • 2 Chr 33:2-5
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    2 But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

    3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

    4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.'

    5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

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    52 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:

    53 For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

  • 32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

  • 22 And will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 16:2-3
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    73%

    2 Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel, yet you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins;

    3 Behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

  • 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

  • 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for Baalim.

  • 72%

    15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench around the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

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    11 Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus; so Urijah the priest made it before king Ahaz came from Damascus.

    12 And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and offered on it.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3-4
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    72%

    3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

    4 And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • 13 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.

  • 15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • 7 And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.'

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    31 And he made a house of high places and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

    32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

    33 So he offered upon the altar that he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

  • 7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'

  • 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • 34 He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.

  • 2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

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    26 And they brought out the images from the house of Baal, and burned them.

    27 And they broke down the image of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.

    28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel.

  • 20 And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

  • 16 They left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves cast images, even two calves, made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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    25 But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

    26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 28 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

  • 7 Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha and his house, for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he struck him down.

  • 7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the hill before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • 4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

  • 14 He also brought the bronze altar, which was before the LORD, from the front of the temple, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.

  • 19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.