1 Kings 21:26

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“He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)”

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BSBPD

“He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.)”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and he doth very abominably to go after the idols, according to all that the Amorite did whom Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Kings 21:26 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
  2. Leviticus 18:25Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.
  3. Leviticus 18:30You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
  4. Leviticus 20:22You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
  5. Deuteronomy 12:31You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
  6. Joshua 23:9The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
  7. 1 Kings 15:12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  8. 2 Kings 16:3Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  9. 2 Kings 17:12They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”
  10. 2 Kings 21:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  11. 2 Kings 21:11“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
  12. 2 Chronicles 15:8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.
  13. 2 Chronicles 33:2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  14. 2 Chronicles 33:9So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  15. 2 Chronicles 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
  16. Ezra 9:11that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
  17. Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
  18. Isaiah 65:4sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
  19. Jeremiah 16:18And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
  20. Jeremiah 44:4Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
  21. Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
  22. Ezekiel 18:12He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.
  23. 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
  24. Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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