1 Kings 15:11

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Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

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  • 2 Chr 14:2 : 2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
  • 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
  • 2 Chr 16:7-9 : 7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands. 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands. 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars. 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 14:1-3
    3 verses
    90%

    1 So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.

    2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

    3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    84%

    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
    81%

    3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 15:12-16
    5 verses
    80%

    12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

    13 And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

    14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    15 He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

    16 Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
    79%

    3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    79%

    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    79%

    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 15:34
    77%

    34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 1 Kgs 15:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8 Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David: and Asa his son became king in his place.

    9 In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

    10 And he was king for forty-one years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 1 Kgs 15:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23 Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 15:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

    16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

    19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.

  • 2 Chr 26:4
    76%

    4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    76%

    43 He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    75%

    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 28:1
    74%

    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 Chr 16:11
    74%

    11 Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    73%

    2 Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    73%

    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 Chr 16:13
    73%

    13 So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    73%

    5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    72%

    8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    72%

    2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

  • 2 Kgs 16:2
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 21:12
    72%

    12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

  • Matt 1:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa;

    8 And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah;

  • 1 Kgs 11:6
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    70%

    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

  • 2 Chr 31:20
    70%

    20 This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20
    70%

    20 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

  • 1 Chr 3:10
    70%

    10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    70%

    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 17:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

    3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

  • 2 Chr 15:10
    69%

    10 So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    69%

    46 He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    69%

    9 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.