1 Kings 22:53
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 in other translations
| BSB | Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done. |
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| WEB | He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in all the ways that his father had done so. |
| ASV | And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. |
| YLT | and serveth the Baal, and boweth himself to it, and provoketh Jehovah, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. |
| DARBY | And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done. |
| BBE | He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done. |
| Webster | For he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. |
What does 1 Kings 22:53 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 22:51-53
Ahaziah's reign was very short, not two years; some sinners God makes quick work with. A very bad character is given of him; he listened not to instruction, took no warning, but followed the example of his wicked father, and the counsel of his more wicked mother, Jezebel, who was still living. Miserable are the children who not only derive a sinful nature from their parents, but are taught by them to increase it…
1 Kings 22:53 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Kings 22:53
- 1 Kings 16:30-32
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. 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. And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
- 2 Kings 1:2
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
- Psalms 106:29
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
- Ezekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
- 2 Kings 3:2
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.
- Isaiah 65:3
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
- 1 Kings 21:29
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.
- 1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
- Ezekiel 18:14-18
Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife, Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment, That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. …
- Judges 2:1-11
And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. …
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- 1 Kings 22:52
And 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:
- 1 Kings 22:53
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 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | E hizo lo malo en los ojos de Jehová, y anduvo en el camino de su padre, y en el camino de su madre, y en el camino de Jeroboam hijo de Nabat, que hizo pecar á Israel: Porque sirvió á Baal, y lo adoró, y provocó á ira á Jehová Dios de Israel, conforme á todas las cosas que su padre había hecho. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et il fit ce qui est mauvais aux yeux de l’ Éternel, et il marcha dans la voie de son père, et dans la voie de sa mère, et dans la voie de Jéroboam, fils de Nebath, qui fit pécher Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er tat, was böse war in den Augen Jehovas, und er wandelte auf dem Wege seines Vaters und auf dem Wege seiner Mutter und auf dem Wege Jerobeams, des Sohnes Nebats, der Israel sündigen gemacht hatte. Und er diente dem Baal und beugte sich vor ihm nieder; und er reizte Jehova, den Gott Israels, nach allem, was sein Vater getan hatte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et fecit malum in conspectu Domini, et ambulavit in via patris sui et matris suæ, et in via Jeroboam filii Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israël. |