1 Kings 22:53 {54}
Good News Translation
He worshiped and served Baal, and like his father before him, he aroused the anger of the LORD, the God of Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
He served Baal and worshiped him; he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

Contemporary English Version
Ahaziah worshiped Baal and made the LORD God of Israel very angry, just as his father had done.

New American Bible
He served Baal and worshiped him, thus provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, just as his father had done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

he served Baal

1 Kings 16:31 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him.

Judges 2:1-11 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever: . . .

2 Kings 1:2 And Ochozias fell through the lattices of his upper chamber, which he had in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, saying to them: Go, consult Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, whether I shall recover of this my illness.

2 Kings 3:2 And he did evil before the Lord, but not like his father and his mother: for he took away the statues of Baal, which his father had made.

provoked

1 Kings 16:7 And when the word of the Lord came in the hand of Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet, against Baasa, and against his house, and against all the evil that he had done before the Lord, to provoke him to anger by the works of his hands, to become as the house of Jeroboam: for this cause he slew him; that is to say, Jehu, the son of Hanani, the prophet.

Psalm 106:29 And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

Isaiah 65:3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Ezekiel 8:3 And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy.

according to all

1 Kings 21:29 Hast thou not seen Achab humbled before me? therefore, because he hath humbled himself, for my sake, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.

Ezekiel 18:14-18 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all his father's sins, which he hath done, is afraid, and shall not do the like to them: . . .

Context
Ahaziah Reigns in Israel
52And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father and his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. 53He served also Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
Cross References
Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

1 Kings 16:30
And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

1 Kings 22:52
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