1 Kings 22:53
◄  1 Kings 22:53  ►
New International Version (©2011)
He served and worshiped Baal and aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He served Baal and worshiped him, provoking the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He served Baal and worshiped him. He provoked the LORD God of Israel just as his father had done.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He served Baal, worshipped him, and provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger, in accordance with everything his father had done.

NET Bible (©2006)
He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, angering the LORD God of Israel just as his father had done.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Ahaziah served Baal, worshiped him, and made the LORD God of Israel furious, as his father had done.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

American King James Version
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

American Standard Version
And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Darby Bible Translation
And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked Jehovah the God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

English Revised Version
And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

World English Bible
He served Baal, and worshiped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Young's Literal Translation
and serveth the Baal, and boweth himself to it, and provoketh Jehovah, God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:51-53 Ahaziah's reign was very short, not two years; some sinners God makes quick work with. A very bad character is given of him; he listened not to instruction, took no warning, but followed the example of his wicked father, and the counsel of his more wicked mother, Jezebel, who was still living. Miserable are the children who not only derive a sinful nature from their parents, but are taught by them to increase it; and most unhappy parents are they, that help to damn their children's souls. Hardened sinners rush forward, unawed and unmoved, in the ways from which others before them have been driven into everlasting misery.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 53. - For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger [or vexed] the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done. [The termination of this book at this point could hardly be more arbitrary if it had been made by accident. These verses are closely connected with 2 Kings ch. 1. The division here obscures the connexion between the sin of Ahaziah and the judgments which it provoked.]

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For he served Baal, and worshipped him,.... That is, Ahaziah served him, as his father had done, and his mother still did:

and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done; of which there is an instance in the first chapter of the following book; for falling through a lattice, and becoming sick upon it, he quickly died, having sent messengers to inquire of the god of Ekron whether he should die or not.

1 Kings 22:53 Parallel Commentaries

1 Kings 22:53 NIV
1 Kings 22:53 NLT
1 Kings 22:53 ESV
1 Kings 22:53 NASB
1 Kings 22:53 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


Ahaziah's Evil Reign in Israel
51Ahaziah 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. 52And 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: 53For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Judges 2:11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.
1 Kings 16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him.