Verse 2
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.
Referenced Verses
- 1 Kgs 3:14 : 14 And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
- 1 Kgs 9:4 : 4 As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;
- 1 Kgs 11:4-8 : 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did. 7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon. 8 And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
- 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.
- 2 Kgs 14:3 : 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.
- 2 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
- 2 Kgs 15:34 : 34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.
- 2 Kgs 18:3 : 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.
- 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
- 2 Chr 17:3 : 3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,
- 2 Chr 28:1-4 : 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father: 2 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals. 3 More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel. 4 And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
- 2 Chr 29:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.
- 2 Chr 34:2-3 : 2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left. 3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.