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2 Chronicles 28:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel  and made cast images of the Baals.

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‘Do not make cast images  of gods for yourselves.


The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.  They worshipped the Baals


For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth; they will no longer be remembered by their names.


And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewellery and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done,  for Ahab’s daughter was his wife.  He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight,


for they abandoned him and worshipped Baal and the Ashtoreths.


Do not turn to worthless idols  or make cast images  of gods for yourselves;  I am the Lord your God.


They have built the high places of Baal in Ben Hinnom Valley to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the fire  to Molech   #– #something I had not commanded them. I had never entertained the thought  that they do this detestable act, causing Judah to sin!


He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down  and re-established the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.


Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the work of their hands, what their fingers have made.


‘I will pronounce my judgements against them for all the evil they did when they abandoned me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.


All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?





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