2 Kings 12:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 2 Kgs 14:3 : 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.
  • 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 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!
  • 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 : 4 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

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  • 2 Chr 24:1-4
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    92%

    1Joash 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.

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

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
    81%

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

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    80%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 26:4
    78%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:1
    78%

    1In 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 Kgs 15:34
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    78%

    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 27:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Jotham 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.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:9-12
    4 verses
    76%

    9And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.

    10In 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.

    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.

    12Now 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?

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
    75%

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

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

    4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    75%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1In 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.

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 11:21
    72%

    21And Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.

  • 2 Chr 22:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11But 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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

    19Now 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 11:3
    70%

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:15-17
    3 verses
    70%

    15Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

    16And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 31:20
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    69%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:6
    69%

    6But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.

  • 2 Kgs 8:25
    69%

    25In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;

  • 2 Kgs 14:1
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 24:22
    69%

    22So 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!

  • 1 Kgs 22:52
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 8:17
    69%

    17He was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

  • 2 Chr 25:25
    68%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 36:9
    68%

    9Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.