English Standard Version
2 Chronicles 28:2
2but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel. He cast metal images for the worship of Baal.
Context of 2 Chronicles 28:2
1Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done, but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals, 3and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 4And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
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וַיֵּ֕לֶךְ בְּדַרְכֵ֖י מַלְכֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְגַ֧ם מַסֵּכ֛וֹת עָשָׂ֖ה לַבְּעָלִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 28:2
- 2 Chronicles 21:6And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. 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 counselor in doing wickedly.
- 1 Kings 16:31And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
- 2 Kings 10:26and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal and burned it.
- Exodus 34:17"You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.
- Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
- Judges 2:11And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
- Hosea 2:13And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares 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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