2 Kings 14:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And 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.
  • 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 24:2 : 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 : 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 25:2-3 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord. 3 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.
  • 2 Chr 25:14-16 : 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. 15 And 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? 16 But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.
  • Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.
  • Zech 1:4-6 : 4 Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord. 5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever? 6 But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-4
    2 verses
    88%

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

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

  • 2 Chr 24:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

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

    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 12:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    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 18:3
    84%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    84%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    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 Chr 26:4
    81%

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

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    81%

    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 Chr 34:2
    81%

    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 Chr 20:32
    80%

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    80%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:9-12
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    80%

    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?

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    79%

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

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    79%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    79%

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    78%

    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 14:2
    77%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    76%

    3 And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    76%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    76%

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

  • 2 Kgs 13:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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 Chr 28:1
    75%

    1 Ahaz 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:

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 3:11
    73%

    11 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

  • 2 Kgs 14:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 Now 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?

    16 And 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.

  • 2 Kgs 14:2
    72%

    2 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    72%

    24 He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52
    72%

    52 He 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 15:9
    72%

    9 And 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.

  • 2 Chr 24:22
    72%

    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 Kgs 12:19
    72%

    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 Chr 31:20
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 16:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Ahaz 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.

    3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    71%

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