2 Chronicles 26:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
  • Dan 1:17 : 17 Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.
  • Dan 10:1 : 1 In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.
  • 1 Chr 22:13 : 13 And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.
  • 2 Chr 25:8 : 8 But go yourself, and be strong in war; God will not let you go down before those who are fighting against you; for God has power to give help or to send you down before your attackers.
  • Ps 1:3 : 3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
  • Gen 41:15 : 15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.
  • Gen 41:38 : 38 Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
  • Judg 2:7 : 7 And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.
  • 1 Chr 22:11 : 11 Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.
  • Hos 6:4 : 4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.
  • 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.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.
  • Dan 2:19 : 19 Then the secret was made clear to Daniel in a vision of the night. And Daniel gave blessing to the God of heaven.
  • Dan 5:16 : 16 And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

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

    21And 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.

  • 2 Chr 26:4
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    4He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
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    34And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

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

  • 2 Chr 34:2-3
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    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.

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  • 2 Chr 14:6-7
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    6He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

    7He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
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    6So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

  • 2 Kgs 18:5-7
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    5He 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.

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

    7And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.

  • 2 Chr 17:3-6
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    3And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

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

    5So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

    6His 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.

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

  • 2 Chr 26:6
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    6He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

  • 2 Chr 27:2-3
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    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.

    3He put up the higher doorway of the house of the Lord, and did much building on the wall of the Ophel.

  • 2 Chr 24:20
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    20Then 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.

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    3But 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.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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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.

  • 2 Chr 25:15
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    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?

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

  • 2 Chr 30:19
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    19Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

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    1And the spirit of God came on Azariah, the son of Oded;

    2And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

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    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.

  • 2 Chr 25:20
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 22:11
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    4But when in their trouble they were turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, searching after him, he let their search be rewarded.

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

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    14Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

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    5Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

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    9For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

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    27Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;

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    11Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

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    12And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.