2 Kings 18:3

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He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.

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  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 saying, "Please, LORD, remember how I have walked before You in truth, wholeheartedly, and have done what is good in Your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • 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.
  • 2 Chr 29:2 : 2 He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good, upright, and true before the Lord his God. 21 In everything he undertook in the service of the house of God, in observing the law and the commandments, and in seeking his God, he worked wholeheartedly and prospered.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.'
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore, I consider all Your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
  • Eph 6:1 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
  • Exod 15:26 : 26 He said, 'If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.'
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may go well with you, and you may go in and possess the good land the LORD promised to your ancestors.
  • 1 Kgs 3:14 : 14 If you walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and commandments as your father David did, then I will prolong your days.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 If you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, doing what is right in My eyes by keeping My statutes and commands, as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  • 1 Kgs 15:5 : 5 For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  • 1 Kgs 15:11 : 11 Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his forefather David had done.

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%

    2He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
    87%

    3He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    86%

    34Jotham did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    84%

    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 26:4
    83%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    81%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    81%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    79%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    78%

    2He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done. However, he did not enter the temple of the LORD, but the people still acted corruptly.

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    78%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    77%

    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 23:32
    77%

    32He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestors had done.

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

    20This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good, upright, and true before the Lord his God.

    21In everything he undertook in the service of the house of God, in observing the law and the commandments, and in seeking his God, he worked wholeheartedly and prospered.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. However, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD like his ancestor David.

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    76%

    37He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    75%

    9He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    2In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, and she was from Beersheba.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    75%

    2Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.

    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.

  • 2 Chr 25:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

    3When his kingdom was firmly established, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father, the king.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel.

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

  • 2 Kgs 16:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Ahaz 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.

    3He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

    3However, he continued in the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin; he clung to those sins and did not turn away from them.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    73%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    73%

    9He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his ancestors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which caused Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    73%

    5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
    2 verses
    72%

    52Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.

    53He did evil in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father, his mother, and Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

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

    2He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    71%

    19He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    71%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin, and he did not turn away from them.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    71%

    18He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab's daughter. He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.

  • Jer 52:2
    71%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    71%

    11He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin; he continued in them.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    70%

    28He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    70%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel who came before him.