22 Judah(A) did evil in the eyes of the Lord. By the sins they committed they stirred up his jealous anger(B) more than those who were before them had done.

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22 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.

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Shishak Attacks Jerusalem(A)

12 After Rehoboam’s position as king was established(B) and he had become strong,(C) he and all Israel[a](D) with him abandoned(E) the law of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:1 That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles

12 And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

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22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy?(A) Are we stronger than he?(B)

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22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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58 They angered him(A) with their high places;(B)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.(C)

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58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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a people who continually provoke me
    to my very face,(A)
offering sacrifices in gardens(B)
    and burning incense(C) on altars of brick;
who sit among the graves(D)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(E)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

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14 He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the Lord.

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14 And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

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19 and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.(A)

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19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

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30 Ahab son of Omri did more(A) evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.

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

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You have done more evil(A) than all who lived before you.(B) You have made for yourself other gods, idols(C) made of metal; you have aroused(D) my anger and turned your back on me.(E)

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But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

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Deborah

Again the Israelites did evil(A) in the eyes of the Lord,(B) now that Ehud(C) was dead.

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

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Ehud

12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord,(A) and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab(B) power over Israel.

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12 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.

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Othniel

The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord(A) their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.(B)

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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.

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16 They made him jealous(A) with their foreign gods
    and angered(B) him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed(C) to false gods,(D) which are not God—
    gods they had not known,(E)
    gods that recently appeared,(F)
    gods your ancestors did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;
    you forgot(G) the God who gave you birth.

19 The Lord saw this and rejected them(H)
    because he was angered by his sons and daughters.(I)
20 “I will hide my face(J) from them,” he said,
    “and see what their end will be;
for they are a perverse generation,(K)
    children who are unfaithful.(L)
21 They made me jealous(M) by what is no god
    and angered me with their worthless idols.(N)
I will make them envious by those who are not a people;
    I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.(O)

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16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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