2 Kings 18:3

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

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  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 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 29:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. 21 And 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.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 But the law is holy, and its orders are holy, upright, and good.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.
  • Exod 15:26 : 26 And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,
  • 1 Kgs 3:14 : 14 And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
  • 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 11:38 : 38 And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  • 1 Kgs 15:5 : 5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.
  • 1 Kgs 15:11 : 11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    89%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
    87%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    86%

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    84%

    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 26:4
    83%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    81%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    79%

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

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    78%

    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 14:2
    78%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    77%

    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
    77%

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

  • 2 Chr 31:20-21
    2 verses
    77%

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

    21 And 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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    76%

    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 28:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    76%

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

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    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
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

    5 He 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.

  • 2 Chr 25:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 He 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.

    3 He 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 Kgs 16:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

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

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    73%

    2 He 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 15:9
    73%

    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 21:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

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

    21 He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    73%

    5 Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
    2 verses
    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.

    53 He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

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

    2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    71%

    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 8:18
    71%

    18 He 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.

  • Jer 52:2
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    71%

    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 15:28
    70%

    28 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 Kgs 17:2
    70%

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