2 Chronicles 22:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
  • Prov 19:27 : 27 A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
  • 2 Chr 24:17-18 : 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada, the chiefs of Judah came and went down on their faces before the king. Then the king gave ear to them. 18 And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.
  • Prov 1:10 : 10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
  • Prov 12:5 : 5 The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 22:3
    86%

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

  • 2 Chr 22:5
    80%

    5 Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

    53 He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 8:27
    79%

    27 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, and did evil in the eyes of the Lord as the family of Ahab did, for he was a son-in-law of the family of Ahab.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    76%

    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 Chr 21:6
    75%

    6 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did 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 23:32
    74%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    74%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

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

    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 23:37
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 21:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    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,

    13 But 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:

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

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

    3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    72%

    2 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    72%

    11 He 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.

  • 2 Chr 20:35
    72%

    35 After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:

  • 1 Kgs 21:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

    26 He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    72%

    24 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    71%

    5 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
    71%

    26 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 16:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30 And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
    71%

    34 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    71%

    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 16:3
    71%

    3 But 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.

  • 2 Chr 28:2
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 12:8
    70%

    8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:

  • 2 Chr 22:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 Now when Jehu was effecting the punishment of the family of Ahab, he came to the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah's brothers, the servants of Ahaziah, and put them to death.

    9 And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    70%

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.

  • 2 Chr 10:8
    70%

    8 But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    70%

    18 He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:40
    69%

    40 So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    69%

    26 Copying 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.

  • 2 Chr 33:22
    69%

    22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:22
    69%

    22 And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

  • 2 Chr 25:3
    69%

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