King James Version (KJV)
1 Kings 22:53
“For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 22
51
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.
52
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:
53
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
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