2 Chronicles 25:2

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 25:14 : 14 Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.
  • 2 Chr 24:2 : 2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
  • 1 Sam 16:7 : 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 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 26:4 : 4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with 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;
  • Hos 10:2 : 2 Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.
  • Acts 8:21 : 21 You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.
  • Jas 1:8 : 8 For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

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

    4But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

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

  • 1Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

    1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.

    2He was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.

    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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 3And 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • 74%

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 72%

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

    26Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

    27Now from the time when Amaziah gave up worshipping the Lord, they made secret designs against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him and put him to death there.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 27Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

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

  • 2He 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.

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

  • 1In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 20But Amaziah gave no attention; and this was the purpose of God, so that he might give them up into the hands of Joash, because they had gone after the gods of Edom.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 17Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.

  • 15And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?

  • 2And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.