2 Chronicles 21:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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  • 2 Chr 18:1 : 1 Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.
  • 1 Kgs 12:28-30 : 28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt. 29 And he put one in Beth-el and the other in Dan. 30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.
  • 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 16:25-33 : 25 And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him, 26 Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways. 27 Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel? 28 So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place. 29 In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years. 30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him. 31 And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal. 32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.
  • 2 Chr 22:2 : 2 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri.
  • Neh 13:25-26 : 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:16-18
    3 verses
    87%

    16In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

    17He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

    18He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 8:25-28
    4 verses
    83%

    25In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

    26Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.

    27He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.

    28He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51-53
    3 verses
    81%

    51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

    52He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

    53He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 16:29-31
    3 verses
    81%

    29In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.

    30And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

    31And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

  • 2 Kgs 3:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

    3But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

  • 2 Chr 21:5
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    5Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Chr 22:3-6
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    77%

    3He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

    4And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

    5Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

    6And he went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which they had given him at Ramah when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to Jezreel to see Jehoram, the son of Ahab, because he was ill.

  • 2 Chr 21:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

    12And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

    13But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    76%

    11He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    76%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

  • 1 Kgs 21:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

    26He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    74%

    26Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

    21He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

    22Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    73%

    37He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Kgs 10:31
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    31But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

    3He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 20:35
    72%

    35After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    72%

    24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • Mal 2:11
    72%

    11Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    72%

    3But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    72%

    9And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
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    28He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 1:17
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    17So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    72%

    32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Chr 28:2
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    2But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
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    26He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
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    24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
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    22And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

  • 2 Chr 22:1
    71%

    1And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    70%

    32He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.