◄ 2 Chronicles 28:2 ►
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Good News Translation
and followed the example of the kings of Israel. He had metal images of Baal made,

New Revised Standard Version
but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made cast images for the Baals;

Contemporary English Version
and was as sinful as the kings of Israel. He made idols of the god Baal,

New American Bible
He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made molten idols for the Baals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.

For he walked

2 Chronicles 21:6 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had done: for his wife was a daughter of Achab, and he did evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 22:3,4 He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly. . . .

1 Kings 16:31-33 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him. . . .

2 Kings 10:26-28 And brought the statue out of Baal's temple, and burnt it, . . .

molten images

Exodus 34:17 Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.

Leviticus 19:4 Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

Baalim

Judges 2:11,13 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim . . .

Hosea 2:13,17 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord. . . .

Context
Ahaz Reigns in Judah
1Achaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord as David his father had done, 2But walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; moreover also he cast statues for Baalim.3It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:17
Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.

Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

2 Chronicles 22:3
He also walked in the ways of the house of Achab: for his mother pushed him on to do wickedly.

Jeremiah 32:35
And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my heart, that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin.

2 Chronicles 28:1
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