Thematic Bible: Adopted by the wicked kings


Thematic Bible



He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.) Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals. More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel. And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven; Verse ConceptsBuilding Altars

He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with Davidelection, privileges ofJerusalem, Significance OfPollutions

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain