And it happened as if it were a light thing, that he walked in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took a wife, Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and bowed himself to it.
And he said, Being zealous, I have been zealous for Jehovah the God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant; they have thrown down Your altars, and they have struck Your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.
And it shall be, the remnant in Zion, and the remainder in Jerusalem, it shall be said of him: He is holy, every one who is written among the living in Jerusalem;
They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command and did not speak, and it did not come into My heart.
I will also stretch out My hand on Judah and on all those dwelling in Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the idol-priests, with the priests;