32He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.


In Context

29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years.

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

31 He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him.

32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.

33 Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to provoke the Lord , the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him.

34 In Ahab's time, Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho. He laid its foundations at the cost of his firstborn son Abiram, and he set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, in accordance with the word of the Lord spoken by Joshua son of Nun.

1st Kings 16:32 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:32And he set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal, which he had built in Samaria,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:32And he erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:32He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:32and raiseth up an altar for Baal, in the house of the Baal, that he built in Samaria;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:32And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.