2 Kings 3:2
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as his father and mother did. For he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.
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Exodus 23:24You shall not adore their gods, nor worship them. You shall not do their works, but you shall destroy them and break apart their statues.
1 Kings 16:19in his sins, which he had sinned, doing evil before the Lord, and walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin, by which he caused Israel to sin.
1 Kings 16:32And he set up an altar for Baal, in the temple of Baal, which he had built at Samaria.
1 Kings 21:20And Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you discovered me to be your enemy?” And he said: “I have discovered you to have been sold, so that you would do evil in the sight of the Lord:
2 Kings 6:31And the king said, “May God do these things to me, and may he add these other things, if the head of Elisha, the son of Shaphat, will remain on him this day!”
2 Kings 9:34And when he had entered, so that he might eat and drink, he said: “Go, and see to that cursed woman, and bury her. For she is the daughter of a king.”
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 3:2-6
The Reign of Jehoram. ( b. c. 895.) 1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord ; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made. 3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto… Read the whole commentary →