1 Kings 15:26

26 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

1 Kings 15:26 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 15:26

And he did evil in the sight of the Lord
Committed idolatry, than which nothing is a greater evil in his sight:

and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made
Israel to sin:
in making and worshipping of golden calves.

1 Kings 15:26 In-Context

24 So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.
25 Nadab, the son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in the second year that Asa was king of Judah; and he was king of Israel for two years.
26 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.
27 And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.
28 In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.
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