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1 Kings 16:33 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him. "

1 Kings 16:33

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

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

33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

34 In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

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2 Kings 21:3

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"For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them."

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2 Kings 23:15

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"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."

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1 Kings 22:53

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"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."

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1 Kings 15:30

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"for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger."

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2 Chronicles 33:3

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"For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them."

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2 Chronicles 22:4

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"He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction."

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1 Kings 16:1

"The LORD’s word came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,"

1 Kings 16:2

"“Because I exalted you out of the dust and made you prince over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins,"

1 Kings 16:3

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

1 Kings 16:4

"The dogs will eat Baasha’s descendants who die in the city; and he who dies of his in the field, the birds of the sky will eat.”"

1 Kings 16:5

"Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?"

1 Kings 16:6

"Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place."

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