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He set upוַיָּקֶםan altarמִזְבֵּחַfor Baalלַבָּעַלin the houseבֵּיתof Baalהַבַּעַלthatאֲשֶׁרhe builtבָּנָהin Samaria.בְּשֹׁמְרוֹן
1 Kings 16:32
Study it in the app“He set up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal that he built in Samaria.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 16:32, word by word
- He set upיָּקֶםyakem
establish
To put something up, or confirm a covenant.
Where else “yakem” appears- an altarמִזְבֵּחַmizbeach
altar
Altar: a structure of stone or earth on which sacrifices are offered to God.
Where else “mizbeach” appears- for Baalבָּעַלbaal
Baal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “baal” appears- in the houseבֵּיתbet
temple
The temple: "the house of YHWH".
Where else “bet” appears- he builtבָּנָהbana
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “bana” appears- in Samariaשֹׁמְרוֹןshomron
Samaria
See it on the mapWhere else “shomron” appears
Places in this verse
Samaria
Today: northern West Bank (Sebastia, Samaria hills)
A city and region in central Israel, between Judea and Galilee.
Omri founded the city as capital of the northern kingdom (1 Kgs 16:24); the Assyrians conquered it (2 Kgs 17:6). Jesus passed through the region, and Philip preached there (John 4:4; Acts 8:5).
The context
31And it happened, as if it were a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and bowed down to him.
32 · This verse (above)
33Ahab also made the Asherah; and Ahab did still more to provoke to anger YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, than all the kings of Israel who were before him.