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2 Chronicles 28:2
2Instead he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made cast images for the Baals.
2 Chronicles 28:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
- New International Version (NIV)He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals,
- New King James Version (NKJV)For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals.
Context of 2 Chronicles 28:2
1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the sight of the Lord, as his father (forefather) David had done. Instead he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made cast images for the Baals. 3And he burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his sons [as an offering], in accordance with the repulsive acts of the [pagan] nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons (descendants) of Israel. 4He also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [of pagan worship], on the hills and under every green tree.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 282 Chronicles 28:2 word by word
וַיֵּ֕לֶךְ בְּדַרְכֵ֖י מַלְכֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְגַ֧ם מַסֵּכ֛וֹת עָשָׂ֖ה לַבְּעָלִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 28:2
- 2 Chronicles 21:6He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done (for he married the daughter of Ahab), and he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his adviser [and she encouraged him] to act wickedly.
- 1 Kings 16:31It came about, as if it had been a trivial thing for Ahab to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
- 2 Kings 10:26They brought out the sacred pillars (obelisks) of the house of Baal and burned them.
- Exodus 34:17You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.
- Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the Lord your God.
- Judges 2:11Then the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord and worshiped and served the Baals,
- Hosea 2:13And I will punish her for the [feast] days of the Baals, When she used to offer sacrifices and burn incense to them And adorn herself with her earrings and nose rings and her jewelry, And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” says the Lord.
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 28:2
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Images for Baalim - Or, to serve as Baalim, i. e as representatives of the different forms or characters of the chief Phoenician deity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-212Ch 28:1-21. Ahaz, Reigning Wickedly, Is Afflicted by the Syrians. 1-4. Ahaz was twenty years old--(See on 2Ki 16:1-4). This prince, discarding the principles and example of his excellent father, early betrayed a strong bias to idolatry. He ruled with an arbitrary and absolute authority, and not as a theocratic sovereign: he not only forsook the temple of God, but embraced first the symbolic worship established in the sister kingdom, and afterwards the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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