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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 3:2 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 3:2 |
King James |
And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| On the "evil" done by Ahab, see especially Kg1 16:30-34. Jehoram, warned by the fate of his brother (Kg2 1:4 note), began his reign by a formal abolition of the Phoenician state religion introduced by Ahab - even if he connived at its continuance among the people Kg2 10:26-27; and by a re-establishment of the old worship of the kingdom as arranged by Jeroboam. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| He put away the image of Baal - He abolished his worship; but he continued that of the calves at Dan and Beth-el. |
26 And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
27 And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day.
4 Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.
30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.