📖WEB · 1 Kings 22:53
What does 1 Kings 22:53 mean?
"He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger, in all the ways that his father had done so."
— 1 Kings 22:53 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in his father David’s city. Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, 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, in which he made Israel to sin.
He served Baal and worshiped him, and provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger, in all the ways that his father had done so.
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