2 Chronicles 27:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:34-35 : 34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done. 35 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 26:4 : 4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
  • 2 Chr 26:16-21 : 16 But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men; 18 And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God. 19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes. 20 And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him. 21 So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.
  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.
  • Acts 5:13 : 13 The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;

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    32 In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.

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

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

    35 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

    36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 26:3-4
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    3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.

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

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    5 And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
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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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    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 Kgs 22:2
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  • 2 Chr 27:6-9
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    6 So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

    7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

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