1 Kings 15:26

World English Bible (2000)

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ אָבִ֔יו וּבְ֨חַטָּאת֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הֶחֱטִ֖יא אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wayyaʿaś the-raʿ in-ʿênê YHWH wayyēlek in-derek ʾābîw and-in-ḥaṭṭāʾtô which heḥĕṭîʾ ʾet-Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *wayyaʿaś*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he did
• *raʿ*: adjective, masculine singular - evil
• *ʿênê*: noun, feminine dual construct - eyes of
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *wayyēlek*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he walked
• *derek*: noun, masculine singular construct - way of
• *ʾābîw*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his father
• *ḥaṭṭāʾtô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sin
• *heḥĕṭîʾ*: Hiphil perfect 3rd masculine singular - he caused to sin
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *wayyaʿaś* *raʿ*: did evil/acted wickedly
• *ʿênê* *YHWH*: in the eyes of YHWH/in the sight of YHWH
• *wayyēlek* in-*derek*: walked in the way/followed the pattern
• *heḥĕṭîʾ*: caused to sin/led into sin/made to sin

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin."
• 1 Kgs 15:30 : 30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
• 1 Kgs 15:34 : 34 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 12:28-33 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" 29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan. 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. 33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
• 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 After this thing Jeroboam didn't return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. 34 This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
• Gen 20:9 : 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
• Exod 32:21 : 21 Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"
• 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people disobey.
• 1 Kgs 16:7 : 7 Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
• 1 Kgs 16:19 : 19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
• 1 Kgs 16:25-26 : 25 Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him. 26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
• 1 Kgs 16:30 : 30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him.
• 1 Kgs 21:22 : 22 I 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 have made Israel to sin."
• 1 Kgs 22:52 : 52 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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, in which he made Israel to sin.
• 2 Kgs 3:3 : 3 Nevertheless he held to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.
• 2 Kgs 21:11 : 11 "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;
• 2 Kgs 23:15 : 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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
• Jer 32:35 : 35 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through [the fire] to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
• Rom 14:15 : 15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
• 1 Cor 8:10-13 : 10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.