2 Kings 17:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 3:2 : 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 10:31 : 31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.
  • 2 Kgs 13:2 : 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 Kgs 13:11 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 15:9 : 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 Kgs 15:18 : 18 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.
  • 2 Kgs 15:24 : 24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.
  • 2 Chr 30:5-9 : 5 So it was ordered that word was to be sent out through all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, that they were to come to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: because they had not kept it in great numbers in agreement with the law. 6 So runners went with letters from the king and his chiefs through all Israel and Judah, by the order of the king, saying, O children of Israel, come back again to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may come again to that small band of you which has been kept safe out of the hands of the kings of Assyria. 7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see. 8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you. 9 For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him. 10 So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of. 11 However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem.

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  • 2 Kgs 17:1
    84%

    1In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.

  • 2 Kgs 13:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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 15:24
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    78%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    78%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    77%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:3
    77%

    3Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

    3He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    75%

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:51-52
    2 verses
    75%

    51Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.

    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 15:18
    74%

    18He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2He 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.

    3But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.

  • 1 Kgs 16:25
    74%

    25And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
    73%

    34He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 16:30
    72%

    30And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    72%

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

  • 2 Kgs 16:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    3But 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 14:3
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 18:9
    71%

    9Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    71%

    18He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
    71%

    26He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    71%

    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 Kgs 21:20
    70%

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

  • Jer 52:2
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    70%

    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 18:1
    70%

    1Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 12:14
    70%

    14And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 15:30
    70%

    30And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    70%

    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 Kgs 18:3
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 22:4
    70%

    4And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 18:5
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
    69%

    9But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    69%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    69%

    26He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    69%

    19He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    69%

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