1 Kings 15:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 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.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. 21 And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.
  • 1 Kgs 11:33 : 33 Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.
  • 1 Kgs 14:21-22 : 21 And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. 22 And Judah did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and made him more angry than their fathers had done by their sins.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
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    78%

    2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

    3But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

  • 9And 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 16:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Ahaz 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.

    3But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

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

    21He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

    22Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

  • 3He 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 Chr 25:2-3
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    2He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

    3Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.

  • 6And 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 28:1-2
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    1Ahaz 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:

    2But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

  • 52He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

  • 11He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

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

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

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    12And 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,

    13But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

  • 2For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

  • 2And 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.

  • 24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 28He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 24He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 18He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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

  • 43He 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.

  • 18He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 33Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.

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

  • 2He 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.

  • 4For 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.

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

  • 3He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

  • 32He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

  • 4But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

  • 14And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

  • 4But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;

  • 26He 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.

  • 2He 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.

  • 26Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

  • 11Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

  • 37He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

  • 4As 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;

  • 8And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

  • 2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

  • 2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 23He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.