Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.
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- WEB He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger, in all the ways that his father had done so.
- KJV For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
- NKJV for he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
- NASB So he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
- NLT He served Baal and worshiped him, provoking the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.
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Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking Yahweh to anger just as Ahab had done.
Overview
The closing verse of 1 Kings indicts Ahaziah for devoted Baal worship, the very sin that defined his father's house. His provocation of the Lord sets the stage for the continuing prophetic confrontation in 2 Kings. The book ends on a note of persistent rebellion, underscoring Israel's deep need for a faithful King and true deliverer ultimately found in Christ.
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- 1 Kgs 16:30–32However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
- 1 Kgs 21:29“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.”
- Ezek 8:3He 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 inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
- Ps 106:29So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
- Judg 2:1–11Now 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,
- Isa 65:3to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
- 2 Kgs 1:2Now 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 Kgs 3:2And 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.
- Ezek 18:14–18Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
- 1 Kgs 16:7Moreover, 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 becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.
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