2 Chronicles 28:2
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
2 Chronicles 28:2 in other translations
| BSB | Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals. |
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| WEB | but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals. |
| ASV | but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim. |
| YLT | and walketh in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also, molten images hath made for Baalim, |
| DARBY | but walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made molten images for the Baals; |
| BBE | But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals. |
| Webster | For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. |
What does 2 Chronicles 28:2 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 28:1-4
2Ch 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…
2 Chronicles 28:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 28:2
- Exodus 34:17
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
- Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:
- 2 Chronicles 22:3-4
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly. Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.
- Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
- Judges 2:13
And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
- 2 Chronicles 21:6
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord.
- Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
- 2 Kings 10:26-28
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them. And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
- 1 Kings 16:31-33
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. 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.
- Hosea 2:17
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
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21:6; 22:3,4; 1Ki 16:31-33; 2Ki 10:26-28
molten images.
Ex 34:17; Le 19:4
Baalim.
Jud 2:11,13; Ho 2:13,17
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 28:1
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:
- 2 Chronicles 28:2
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
- 2 Chronicles 28:3
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Antes anduvo en los caminos de los reyes de Israel, y además hizo imágenes de fundición á los Baales. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais il marcha dans les voies des rois d’Israël, et même il fit des images de fonte pour les Baals; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | sondern er wandelte auf den Wegen der Könige von Israel, und auch machte er den Baalim gegossene Bilder; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | sed ambulavit in viis regum Israël, insuper et statuas fudit Baalim. |