Thematic Bible: Adopted by the wicked kings
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » Adopted by the wicked kings
He did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baals. Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
He walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:
He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever: