Bible Cross References
he did evil
1 Kings 15:26
Like his father before him, he sinned against the LORD and led Israel into sin.
1 Kings 16:30-33
30
He sinned against the LORD more than any of his predecessors.
31
It was not enough for him to sin like King Jeroboam; he went further and married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of Sidon, and worshiped Baal.
32
He built a temple to Baal in Samaria, made an altar for him, and put it in the temple.
33
He also put up an image of the goddess Asherah. He did more to arouse the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel before him.
2 Kings 1:2-7
2
King Ahaziah of Israel fell off the balcony on the roof of his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent some messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, in order to find out whether or not he would recover.
3
But an angel of the LORD commanded Elijah, the prophet from Tishbe, to go and meet the messengers of King Ahaziah and ask them, "Why are you going to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no god in Israel?
4
Tell the king that the LORD says, 'You will not recover from your injuries; you will die!' " Elijah did as the LORD commanded,
5
and the messengers returned to the king. "Why have you come back?" he asked.
6
They answered, "We were met by a man who told us to come back and tell you that the LORD says to you, 'Why are you sending messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no god in Israel? You will not recover from your injuries; you will die!' "
7
"What did the man look like?" the king asked.
in the way
1 Kings 21:25
(There was no one else who had devoted himself so completely to doing wrong in the LORD's sight as Ahab---all at the urging of his wife Jezebel.
2 Kings 8:27
Since Ahaziah was related to King Ahab by marriage, he sinned against the LORD, just as Ahab's family did.
2 Kings 9:22
"Are you coming in peace?" Joram asked him. "How can there be peace," Jehu answered, "when we still have all the witchcraft and idolatry that your mother Jezebel started?"
2 Chronicles 22:3
Mark 6:24
So the girl went out and asked her mother, "What shall I ask for?" "The head of John the Baptist," she answered.
Revelation 3:20
Listen! I stand at the door and knock; if any hear my voice and open the door, I will come into their house and eat with them, and they will eat with me.
and in the way
1 Kings 12:28-33
28
After thinking it over, he made two bull-calves of gold and said to his people, "You have been going long enough to Jerusalem to worship. People of Israel, here are your gods who brought you out of Egypt!"
29
He placed one of the gold bull-calves in Bethel and the other in Dan.
30
And so the people sinned, going to worship in Bethel and in Dan.
31
Jeroboam also built places of worship on hilltops, and he chose priests from families who were not of the tribe of Levi.
32
Jeroboam also instituted a religious festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival in Judah. On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the gold bull-calves he had made, and he placed there in Bethel the priests serving at the places of worship he had built.
33
And on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the day that he himself had set, he went to Bethel and offered a sacrifice on the altar in celebration of the festival he had instituted for the people of Israel.
1 Kings 14:9-16
9
You have committed far greater sins than those who ruled before you. You have rejected me and have aroused my anger by making idols and metal images to worship.
10
Because of this I will bring disaster on your dynasty and will kill all your male descendants, young and old alike. I will get rid of your family; they will be swept away like dung.
11
Any members of your family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and any who die in the open country will be eaten by vultures. I, the LORD, have spoken.' "
12
And Ahijah went on to say to Jeroboam's wife, "Now go back home. As soon as you enter the town, your son will die.
13
All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He will be the only member of Jeroboam's family who will be properly buried, because he is the only one with whom the LORD, the God of Israel, is pleased.
14
The LORD is going to place a king over Israel who will put an end to Jeroboam's dynasty.
15
The LORD will punish Israel, and she will shake like a reed shaking in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land which he gave to their ancestors, and he will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, because they have aroused his anger by making idols of the goddess Asherah.
16
The LORD will abandon Israel because Jeroboam sinned and led the people of Israel into sin."
1 Kings 15:34
Like King Jeroboam before him, he sinned against the LORD and led Israel into sin.
2 Kings 3:3
Yet, like King Jeroboam son of Nebat before him, he led Israel into sin and would not stop.