And made also molten images for Baalim.For the Baals, i.e., the different aspects or avatars of the Canaanite god. This clause is added by the chronicler, in explanation of the former one; “the way of the kings of Israel” was the state recognition of Baal worship, side by side with that of Jehovah (2 Chronicles 21:6; 2 Chronicles 22:3; comp. 2 Chronicles 23:17). But possibly both this and the first clause of 2 Chronicles 28:3 have fallen out of the text of Kings. (So Thenius on that passage.)

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