2 Chronicles 17:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 1 Kgs 12:28 : 28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
  • Hos 4:15 : 15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
  • 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
  • 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 He 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.
  • 2 Kgs 17:19 : 19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
  • Jer 3:7-8 : 7 And I said, After she has done all these things she will come back to me; but she did not. And her false sister Judah saw it. 8 And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
  • 1 Kgs 12:30 : 30 And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.
  • 1 Kgs 12:33 : 33 He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.
  • 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places. 34 And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.
  • 1 Kgs 16:31-33 : 31 And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal. 32 And he put up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal which he had made in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.

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

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
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    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43-45
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    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.

    44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

    45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

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    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
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    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 14:4
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    4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.

  • 2 Chr 17:5-6
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    5 So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 9:4
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    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;

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    3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

    4 And Jehoshaphat was living in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, guiding them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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    19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

  • 2 Chr 7:17
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    17 And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:

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    1 And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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    21 He 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;

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

  • 2 Kgs 18:5-6
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    5 He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.

    6 For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.

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    4 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

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    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.

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    31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

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    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.

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    2 He 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.

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    3 Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.

  • 2 Chr 21:12
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    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,

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    5 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

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    10 And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

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    52 He 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.

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

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    22 And the children of Israel went on with all the sins which Jeroboam did; they did not keep themselves from them;

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    20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.

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    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.

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    2 He 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.

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    3 And keep the orders of the Lord your God, walking in his ways, keeping his laws and his orders and his rules and his words, as they are recorded in the law of Moses; so that you may do well in all you do and wherever you go,

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    9 And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.