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1 Kings 22:53 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 22 · verse 53
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.1 Kings 22:53 · King James Version
1 Kings 22:53 in context
51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
52And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, 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, who made Israel to sin:
53For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- worshippedshâchâhto depressH7812 →
- servedʻâbadto workH5647 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- angerkaʻaçto troubleH3707 →
- BaalBaʻalBaal, a Phoenician deityH1168 →
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Here is, I. A short account of the reign of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, of which we shall have a much fuller narrative in the book of Chronicles, and of the greatness and goodness of that prince, neither of which was lessened or sullied by any thing but his intimacy with the house of Ahab, which, upon several accounts,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 41-53