1 Kings 16:30

16:30 Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the sight of¹ the Lord than all who were before him.

1 Kings 16:2

16:2 “I raised you up² from the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel. Yet you followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps³ and encouraged my people Israel to sin; their sins have made me angry.⁴

1 Kings 21:11

21:11 The men of the⁵ city, the leaders⁶ and the nobles who lived there,⁷ followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them.⁸

Ezekiel 16:47-48

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior⁹ and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time¹⁰ you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were! 16:48 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.

¹tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²tn The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 2-3 are one sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (v. 2) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 3). The translation divides this sentence for stylistic reasons.

³tn Heb “walked in the way of Jeroboam.”

⁴tn Heb “angering me by their sins.”

⁵tn Heb “his.”

⁶tn Heb “elders.”

⁷tn Heb “and the nobles who were living in his city.”

⁸tn Heb “did as Jezebel sent to them, just as was written in the scrolls which she sent to them.”

⁹tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

¹⁰tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.