1 Kings 22:53 “Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Isra…”

1 Kings 22:53

Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For he serued Baal and worshipped him, and prouoked the Lord God of Israel vnto wrath, according vnto all that his father had done.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and serveth the Baal, and boweth himself to it, and provoketh Jehovah, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Bible in Basic English

He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

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Cross references

“he served Baal”

Judges 2:1–11 2 Kings 1:2 2 Kings 3:2 1 Kings 16:31

Judges 2:1–11 · BSB

Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

2 Kings 1:2 · BSB

Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury…

2 Kings 3:2 · BSB

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as his father and mother had done. He removed the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

1 Kings 16:31 · BSB

And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and worship Baal.

“provoked”

1 Kings 16:7 Psalm 106:29 Isaiah 65:3 Ezekiel 8:3

1 Kings 16:7 · BSB

Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and…

Psalm 106:29 · BSB

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Isaiah 65:3 · BSB

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Ezekiel 8:3 · BSB

He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the i…

“according to all”

1 Kings 21:29 Ezekiel 18:14–18

1 Kings 21:29 · BSB

“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”

Ezekiel 18:14–18 · BSB

Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:

Also

1 Kings 16:30–32

1 Kings 16:30–32 · BSB

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

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

52And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

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