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2 Chronicles 28:2
2He lived in the same bad way that the kings of Israel did. He also used metal to make images of the god Baal.
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 20 years old when he became king. He ruled Judah as king in Jerusalem for 16 years. He did not do the things that the Lord said were good. So he was not like his ancestor, King David. He lived in the same bad way that the kings of Israel did. He also used metal to make images of the god Baal. 3He offered sacrifices in Ben-Hinnom Valley. He even caused his sons to walk through fire. In this way he copied the terrible sins of the other nations in Canaan. Those were the nations that the Lord had chased out so that the Israelites could live there. 4Ahaz offered sacrifices and he burned incense on altars on the hills, as well as under all the big trees.
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 lived in the same bad way that the kings of Israel did. He did what the family of Ahab had done. He married a daughter of King Ahab and he became as wicked as King Ahab's family was. He did things that the Lord said were evil.
- 2 Chronicles 22:3Ahaziah lived in the same bad way that Ahab's family had done. His mother taught him to do wicked things.
- 1 Kings 16:31He did the same bad things that Nebat's son Jeroboam had done. He even did something that was even worse. He married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of Sidon. Ahab served Baal as his god and he worshipped him.
- 2 Kings 10:26They took out the stones from the house of Baal and they destroyed them.
- Exodus 34:17Do not melt metal to make images of false gods.
- Leviticus 19:4You must not worship idols. You must not use metal to make gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.
- Judges 2:11The Israelites did things that the Lord saw were evil. They worshipped the idols of Baal.
- Hosea 2:13I will punish her because she burned incense to the idols of Baal. I will punish her because she made herself beautiful with jewels when she went to sleep with her lovers. I will punish her because she did those things but she forgot about me. That is what the Lord says.
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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