King James Version
1 Kings 22:53 in the King James Version says “For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father h...” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 · KJV
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
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:
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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