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


In Context

29 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.

30 Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all that were before him.

31 It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

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

33 Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

34 In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

1 Kings 16:32 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:32He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria.

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 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.