2 Chronicles 24:2

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

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  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 26:4-5 : 4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done. 5 He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.
  • Ps 78:36-37 : 36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him; 37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.
  • Ps 106:12-13 : 12 Then they had faith in his words; they gave him songs of praise. 13 But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
  • Mark 4:16-17 : 16 And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy; 17 And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.
  • 2 Kgs 12:2 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 24:17-22 : 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. 19 And the Lord sent them prophets to make them come back to him; and they gave witness against them, but they would not give ear. 20 Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up. 21 But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house. 22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

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  • 2 Kgs 12:1-3
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    1 In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

    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.

    3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
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    85%

    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.

    4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 24:3-4
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    80%

    3 And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

    4 Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;

  • 2 Kgs 22:1-2
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    1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years; his mother's name was Jedidah, daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

    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 Kgs 15:3
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    3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 24:1
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    1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

  • 2 Chr 26:4
    77%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:2
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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 15:34
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:1-2
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    75%

    1 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

    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 Kgs 18:3
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    3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
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    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.

  • 2 Kgs 13:9-12
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    9 And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.

    10 In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.

    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.

    12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 11:21
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    21 And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
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    11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

  • 2 Chr 24:14-17
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    14 And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.

    15 But Jehoiada became old and full of days, and he came to his end; he was a hundred and thirty years old at the time of his death.

    16 And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
    71%

    22 So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!

  • 2 Chr 24:24
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    24 For though the army of Aram was only a small one, the Lord gave a very great army into their hands, because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers. So they put into effect the punishment of Joash.

  • 2 Chr 22:11-12
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    71%

    11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him and the woman who took care of him in a bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest and sister of Ahaziah, kept him safe from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.

    12 And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.

  • 2 Kgs 13:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 In the twenty-third year of Joash, the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for seventeen years.

    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 Kgs 24:9
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
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    32 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

  • 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 12:19
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    19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kgs 11:2-3
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    2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the bedroom; and they kept him safe from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.

    3 And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
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    19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
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    37 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Chr 23:16
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    16 And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 25:25
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    25 Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 14:1
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    1 In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.