2 Chronicles 17:3

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The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the early ways of his ancestor David and did not seek after the Baals.

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  • Exod 3:12 : 12 God reassured him, 'I will certainly be with you. And this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.'
  • Exod 4:12 : 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.'
  • Josh 1:5 : 5 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor abandon you.
  • Josh 1:9 : 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”
  • Judg 6:12 : 12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, 'The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'
  • 2 Sam 5:10 : 10 David continued to grow in power, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
  • 2 Sam 8:15 : 15 David reigned over all Israel, administering justice and righteousness to all his people.
  • 1 Kgs 11:6 : 6 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not fully follow the LORD as David his father had done.
  • 2 Kgs 18:3 : 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed in all the ways of his ancestor David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
  • 1 Chr 22:18 : 18 He said, 'Isn’t the Lord your God with you? And hasn’t He given you rest on every side? For He has handed the inhabitants of the land over to me, and the land is subdued before the Lord and His people.'
  • 2 Chr 15:2 : 2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, 'Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.'
  • 2 Chr 15:8-9 : 8 When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the LORD’s temple. 9 Then he assembled all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for a great number had come over to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. 10 They assembled in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign. 11 On that day they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder they had brought. 12 They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and soul. 13 Anyone who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.
  • Ps 46:7 : 7 Nations rage, kingdoms totter; He lifts His voice, the earth melts.
  • Ps 46:11 : 11 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
  • Ps 132:1-5 : 1 A Song of Ascents. Remember, O LORD, on behalf of David, all his afflictions. 2 He swore to the LORD, and made a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob: 3 'I will not enter my house, nor will I go up to my bed; 4 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, 5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.'
  • Isa 8:10 : 10 Devise your plans, but they will be thwarted; issue your orders, but they will not stand, for God is with us.
  • Isa 41:10 : 10 Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; indeed, I will help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
  • Jer 2:23 : 23 How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Consider your path in the valley; acknowledge what you have done—like a swift young she-camel running here and there.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 'Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel' (which means, 'God with us').
  • Matt 28:20 : 20 'teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'
  • 2 Tim 4:22 : 22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you all. Amen.
  • Matt 18:20 : 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there I am with them.
  • 2 Chr 14:2-5 : 2 He removed the foreign altars and the high places, shattered the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. 3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment. 4 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him. 5 He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3-4 : 3 He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been. 4 Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and by establishing Jerusalem.
  • 2 Kgs 14:3 : 3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like his ancestor David. He followed the example of his father Joash instead.
  • 2 Kgs 16:2 : 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. But he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God as David his ancestor had done.
  • Judg 8:33 : 33 After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals, making Baal-Berith their god.
  • Gen 39:2-3 : 2 The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the house of his Egyptian master. 3 His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did.
  • Gen 39:21 : 21 But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him kindness, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
  • Judg 2:11 : 11 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.
  • Judg 2:18 : 18 Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.

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  • 2 Chr 17:4-6
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    88%

    4Instead, he sought the God of his father and obeyed His commands rather than following the practices of Israel.

    5The LORD established the kingdom under his control, and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, so he had great riches and honor.

    6His heart was encouraged in the ways of the LORD, and moreover, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
    2 verses
    78%

    32Jehoshaphat followed the path of his father Asa and did not turn from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

    33However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43-44
    2 verses
    77%

    43Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

    44Nevertheless, the high places were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 19:2-4
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    2Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went out to meet King Jehoshaphat and said to him, 'Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the LORD’s wrath is upon you.'

    3But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.

    4Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, but he also went out among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    74%

    2He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, walking in the ways of his forefather David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    73%

    2He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed in all the ways of his ancestor David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    72%

    10The fear of the LORD came upon all the kingdoms surrounding Judah, so they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Chr 15:2
    71%

    2He went out to meet Asa and said to him, 'Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.'

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
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    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and mother; he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    71%

    3He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  • 2 Kgs 3:12
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    12Jehoshaphat said, "The word of the LORD is with him." So the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him.

  • 2 Chr 21:12
    71%

    12Then Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah, which said, "This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: Because you have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah..."

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    71%

    3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like his ancestor David. He followed the example of his father Joash instead.

  • 2 Chr 17:1-2
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    71%

    1Jehoshaphat, his son, became king in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.

    2He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

  • 2 Chr 20:3
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    3Jehoshaphat was afraid, so he resolved to seek the LORD. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 9:4
    70%

    4'And as for you, if you walk before Me faithfully, as your father David did, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you and keeping My statutes and judgments,

  • 2 Chr 20:5
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    5Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD before the new courtyard.

  • 2 Chr 7:17
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    17As for you, if you walk before Me as David your father did, and do all I have commanded, and observe My statutes and judgments,

  • 2 Chr 18:4
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    4But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, 'Please, first seek the word of the LORD today.'

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • 2 Chr 18:31
    70%

    31When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, 'This is the king of Israel!' So they turned to attack him. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God diverted them away from him.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    70%

    33'For they have forsaken Me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, done what is right in My sight, or kept My statutes and judgments as David, his father, did.'

  • 2 Kgs 18:5-7
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    69%

    5He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

    6He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn away from following Him. He kept the commands that the LORD had given to Moses.

    7The LORD was with him; wherever he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

  • 1 Sam 18:14
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    14David succeeded in everything he did because the LORD was with him.

  • 1 Kgs 22:5
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    5Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, 'Please, first seek an answer from the LORD today.'

  • 2 Kgs 10:23
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    23Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and make sure that no servants of the LORD are here with you—only the worshipers of Baal."

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    69%

    11Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his forefather David had done.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
    69%

    18Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down in worship before the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 21:21-22
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    69%

    21Amon walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served and worshipped the idols his father had worshipped.

    22He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 3:3
    69%

    3Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:2
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    2Instead, he followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and he even made cast images for the Baals.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he compelled everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign, they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    69%

    2He removed the foreign altars and the high places, shattered the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    68%

    17Although the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his life.

  • Judg 1:22
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    22The people of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
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    6Jotham grew strong because he carefully prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

  • Jer 9:14
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    14Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I will feed this people with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink.'

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
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    3He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Chr 20:20
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    20Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, 'Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.'

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
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    61May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.