2 Kings 23:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:5 : 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 Kgs 23:3 : 3 And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.
  • Neh 10:29 : 29 They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;
  • Jer 29:13 : 13 And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.
  • Mal 4:4 : 4 Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.
  • John 7:19 : 19 Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?
  • Deut 4:29 : 29 But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.
  • Deut 6:5 : 5 And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
  • 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 8:48 : 48 And with all their heart and soul are turned again to you, in the land of those who took them prisoners, and make their prayer to you, turning their eyes to this land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I made for your name:
  • 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 18:5-6
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    6 For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.

  • 2 Chr 35:18
    75%

    18 No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    74%

    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 34:30-33
    4 verses
    74%

    30 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

    31 Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.

    32 And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers.

    33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 8:23
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    23 Said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on the earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts.

  • 2 Chr 6:14
    72%

    14 And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;

  • 2 Chr 35:26-27
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    72%

    26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,

    27 And all his acts, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

  • 1 Chr 17:20
    71%

    20 O Lord, there is no one like you, and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
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    26 But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

  • 2 Chr 31:20-21
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    70%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 7:22-23
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    69%

    22 Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

    23 And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?

  • 2 Kgs 23:24
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    24 And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 17:3-4
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    69%

    3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

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

  • Deut 34:10
    69%

    10 There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord had knowledge of face to face;

  • 2 Kgs 23:28
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
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    61 Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    69%

    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 Kgs 23:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

    3 And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    68%

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 3:12
    68%

    12 I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

  • 1 Chr 29:25
    68%

    25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    67%

    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 Chr 30:26
    67%

    26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

  • Josh 10:14
    67%

    14 And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

  • Jer 10:6
    67%

    6 There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.

  • 2 Kgs 23:22
    67%

    22 Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

  • 1 Kgs 21:25
    67%

    25 (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
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    67%

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

    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Sam 2:2
    67%

    2 No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    67%

    3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    66%

    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.

  • Deut 17:20
    66%

    20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    66%

    19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • Josh 22:5
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    5 Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
    66%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:16
    66%

    16 Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said: