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1 Kings 16:32
“He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.”
1 Kings 16:32 in the King James Version
And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.Read 1 Kings 16:32 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 16
Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him.
It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
Cross references for 1 Kings 16:32
- 2 Kings 10:21
Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
- 2 Kings 10:26-27
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.
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