2 occurrences in 11 translations

'Evil in the Sight of the Lord' in the Bible

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord took his life.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsGod KillingGod Killing Individuals

The thing which he did was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he killed him also.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsGenerationsAnger Of God, ConsequencesNomadsThe Number FortyThe Homeless40 To 50 YearsHomelessnessGod Led Them Through The WildernessDying In The Desert Waiting For God's Timingwandering

When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Verse ConceptsProvokingIdols

I fell down in the LORD's presence, just as I had the first 40 days and nights. I did not eat food or drink water because of your sin. You had sinned by committing this evil in the sight of the LORD, thereby provoking him to anger.

Verse ConceptsMediatorProstrationWaterFasting, Accompanied ByMore Than One MonthFasting For Long Periods

“If a man or woman among you in one of your towns that the Lord your God will give you is discovered doing evil in the sight of the Lord your God and violating His covenant

Verse ConceptsAbominations, Judgments OfBreaking The Covenant

For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

Verse ConceptsCorruption, CausesGod's WaysProvoking GodSin, Nature OfKnowing Beforehand

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

Verse ConceptsForgettingBaal Worship, HistorySuccessServing AsherahGod's People Sinning

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahPower, HumanGod's People Sinning

And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

Verse ConceptsGod's People Sinning

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In Otenemies, of Israel and JudahSeven YearsGod Will Cause DefeatGod's People Sinning

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and did not serve him.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBaal Worship, HistoryPolytheismServing AsherahGod's People Sinning

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift40 To 50 YearsGod Will Cause DefeatGod's People Sinning

Is it not the wheat harvest today? I'll call upon the LORD, and he will send thunder and rain. Then you will know and understand that you have done a great evil in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king for yourselves."

Verse ConceptsHarvestGod's People Sinning

Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

Verse ConceptsPlundering

And when the time of mourning was past, David sent word and had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done [with Bathsheba] was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSexual Sin, Nature OfSin, And God's CharacterDavid's Wives

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

Verse ConceptsNot Whole HeartedKingship, Humanrehabilitation

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod's People Sinning

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsWalking

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked Kings

For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked Kings

Omri did more evil in the sight of the Lord than all who were before him.

Verse Conceptsorganization

And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.

Verse ConceptsBehaviourjezebel

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingGrudgesCharacter Of WickedCourage, Examples OfFinding People

There certainly was no one like Ahab who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the Lord, because Jezebel his wife incited him.

Verse ConceptsBad ExampleBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesUnique IndividualsNamed Wivesjezebel

And 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:

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofChildren, Bad Parental ExamplesMothers, Examples OfMothers, Responsibilities OfImitating Wicked Kingsjezebel

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.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisks

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsThe Kingdom Of Others

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.

Verse ConceptsSons In LawThe Kingdom Of Others

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofImitating Wicked Kings

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature of

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature of

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

Verse ConceptsNot Imitating Evil

And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionChild sacrificeProvoking GodConsultationsPagan PracticesCharacter Of WickedDivinationmagicwitches

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

He passed his son through the fire and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFireChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSacrifice, In OtSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfPagan PracticesInfanticideHuman SacrificesFortunetellingNecromancyOccultismTime PassingSorcerypsychics

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as basis of lifeInnocence, Teaching OnSanctity Of LifeSuffering, Causes OfUnfaithfulness, To GodInnocent BloodSheddingKilling The Innocent

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

Verse ConceptsInexperience

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornFirstborn SonsGod Killing

He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab's dynasty had done, for he married Ahab's daughter. He did evil in the sight of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsImitating Wicked Kings

Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction.

For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and they have abandoned Him and have turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have turned their backs [toward Him].

But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsHuman SacrificesAncestral WorshipSorcerypsychics

But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsAge When Crowned

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsWord Of God

He did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord like all that Jehoiakim had done.

Verse ConceptsLike Bad People

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