but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
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but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
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For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
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but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 28:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 34:17 “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
- Judges 2:11 The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
- Leviticus 19:4 “ ‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
- Judges 2:13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
- 1 Kings 16:31-33 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him. He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
- 2 Kings 10:26-28 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them. They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day. Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 21:6 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he had Ahab’s daughter as his wife. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- 2 Chronicles 22:3-4 He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
- Hosea 2:13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
- Hosea 2:17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain As the idolaters have certain chief idols, who are…
As the idolaters have certain chief idols, who are as patrons (as were these Baalim) so have they others which are inferior and do represent the great idols.
He was an idolater like them.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 28:2 For he walked in the ways of…
2Ch 28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
Ver. 2. For hs walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.] Yea, he outdid them in wickedness. See on 2Ki 16:3-4. Sundry holy prophets, as Isaiah, Micah, Nahum, &c., declaimed earnestly against his abominable practices, and proclaimed hell-fire in case he repented not; but he either turned the deaf ear to them, or, if he gave them the hearing, yet he heeded them not; luporum instar, ingenium non mutavit.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To worship his Baalim, or false gods, in and…
To worship his Baalim, or false gods, in and by them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Images for Baalim - Or, to serve as Baalim,…
Images for Baalim - Or, to serve as Baalim, i. e as representatives of the different forms or characters of the chief Phoenician deity.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. for Baalim] R.V. for the Baalim.
2. for Baalim] R.V. for the Baalim.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2) And made also molten images for Baalim.—For the…
(2) And made also molten images for Baalim.—For the Baals, i.e., the different aspects or avatars of the Canaanite god. This clause is added by the chronicler, in explanation of the former one; “the way of the kings of Israel” was the state recognition of Baal worship, side by side with that of Jehovah (2Ch_21:6; 2Ch_22:3-4; comp. 2Ch_23:17). But possibly both this and the first clause of 2Ch_28:3 have fallen out of the text of Kings. (So Thenius on that passage.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Molten images; Hebrew, twOkSem. This was a characteristic sin…
Molten images; Hebrew, twOkSem. This was a characteristic sin of Israel, but Judah had not been guilty of making molten images during late reigns.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain For he walked in the ways of the kings…
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For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel.
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The ways of the kings of Israel
Israel was for the most part more powerful, wealthy, and cultured than Judah. When Ahaz came to the throne as a mere youth, Pekah was apparently in the prime of life and the zenith of power. He is no inapt symbol of what the modern tempter at any rate desires to appear: the showy, pretentious man of the world, who parades his knowledge of life, and impresses the inexperienced youth with his shrewdness and success, and makes his victim eager to imitate him, to walk in the ways of the kings of Israel. (W. H. Bennett, M.A)
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Molten images for the Baals
The prospect of making images for the Baals is an insidious temptation. Ahaz perhaps had found the decorous worship of the one God dull and monotonous. Baals meant new gods and new rites, with all the excitement of novelty and variety. Jotham may not have realised that this youth of twenty was a man; he may have been treated as a child and left too much to the women of the harem. Responsible activity might have saved him. The Church needs to recognise that healthy, vigorous youth craves interesting occupation, and even excitement. If a father wishes to send his son to the devil, he cannot do better than make that sons life, both secular and religious, a routine of monotonous drudgery. Then any pinchbeck king of Israel will seem a marvel of wit and good fellowship, and the making of molten images a most pleasing diversion. A molten image is something solid, permanent, and conspicuous, a standing advertisement of the enterprise and artistic taste of the maker; he engraves his name on the pedestal, and is proud of the honourable distinction. Many of our modern molten images are duly set forth in popular works; for instance, the reputation for impure life, or hard drinking, or reckless gambling, to achieve which some men have spent their time and money and toil. Other molten images are dedicated to another class of Baals: Mammon the respectable and Belial the polite. (W. H. Bennett, M.A.)
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