for he served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as 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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Quick answer
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 16:30–32Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight above all that were before him.
- 1 Kgs 21:29“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
- Ezek 8:3He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
- Ps 106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.
- Judg 2:1–11Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
- Isa 65:3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
- 2 Kgs 1:2Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”
- 2 Kgs 3:2He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, but not like his father, and like his mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
- Ezek 18:14–18“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
- 1 Kgs 16:7Moreover Yahweh’s word came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
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