2 Kings 8:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:26 : 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 And you shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. 8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab every male, and him who is shut up and left in Israel:
  • 2 Kgs 21:3 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 21:13 : 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  • 2 Chr 18:1 : 1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and allied himself with Ahab.
  • 2 Chr 19:2 : 2 And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked and love those that hate the LORD? Therefore, wrath is upon you from before the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 21:6 : 6 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he had Ahab's daughter as his wife; and he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 21:13 : 13 but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into idolatry as the house of Ahab did, and have also killed your brothers, who were better than you,
  • 2 Chr 22:1-4 : 1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram king of Judah, reigned. 2 Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri. 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly. 4 Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, leading to his destruction.
  • Neh 13:25-26 : 25 So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants a hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproach of My people.
  • Gen 6:1-5 : 1 And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men of old, men of renown. 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son. 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-5 : 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites. 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go to them, nor shall they come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods: Solomon clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  • 1 Kgs 21:25 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3 : 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. 3 Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:25-28
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    25In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

    26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

    27And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

    28And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to the war against Hazael king of Syria in Ramothgilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.

  • 2 Chr 21:6
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    6He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he had Ahab's daughter as his wife; and he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51-53
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    51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

    52And 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:

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

  • 1 Kgs 16:29-32
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    29In 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.

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

    31And 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.

    32He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
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    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, but he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father.

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

  • 2 Chr 22:3-5
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    3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

    4Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, leading to his destruction.

    5He also followed their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
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    28And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
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    11He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but he walked in them.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
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    9And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Chr 21:12-13
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    12Elijah the prophet sent him a letter, saying, "This is what the LORD, the God of David your father, says: Because you have not followed the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or Asa king of Judah,

    13but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into idolatry as the house of Ahab did, and have also killed your brothers, who were better than you,

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
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    34He 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 Kgs 16:3
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    3But 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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
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    2He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
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    24And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
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    26He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
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    18And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Kgs 3:1-3
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    1Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

    2And 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.

    3Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
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    24And he did evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.

  • 2 Kgs 8:17
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    17He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
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    26For 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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:25-26
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    25But there was none like Ahab, who sold himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

    26And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
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    2And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

    3For 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.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
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    2But 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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-22
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    20And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

    21And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them.

    22And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
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    32And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

  • 2 Chr 20:35
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    35After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted very wickedly.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
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    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him.

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    3He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as David his father had done.

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    2And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
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    2And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.