2 Chronicles 12:14

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he did euill, because he prepared not his heart to seeke the Lorde.

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  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse, there are some good actes founde in thee, in that thou hast hewen downe the groues out of the lande, and hast prepared thyne heart to seke God.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 That prepareth his heart to seeke the Lorde God, the God of his fathers: though he be not clensed accordyng to the purification of the sanctuarie.
  • Ps 57:7 : 7 My heart is redy O Lorde, my heart is redy: I wyll sing, and prayse thee in singing of psalmes.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And that they be not as their forefathers were a rebellious and a mutable generation: a generation that directed not their heart aright, and whose spirite cleaued not stedfastly vnto God.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not.
  • Ps 105:3-4 : 3 Glary ye in his holy name: let the heart of them reioyce that do seeke God. 4 Seeke God and his strength: seeke his face euermore.
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I haue not spoken secretly, neither in darke places of the earth: I sayde not in vayne to the seede of Iacob, seeke me: I am the Lorde, whiche when I speake, do declare the thing that is righteous and true.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seke the Lorde whyle he may be founde, and call vpon hym whyle he is nye. 7 Let the vngodly man forsake his owne wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and turne agayne vnto the Lorde, so shall he be mercifull vnto hym: and to our God, for he is very redy to forgeue.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come vnto thee as the people vseth to come, and my people syt before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter: for in their mouthes they make a iest of them, and their heart goeth after their couetousnes.
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Aske, and it shalbe geuen you: seke, and ye shall fynde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therfore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmouable, alwayes riche in the worke of the Lorde, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vayne in the Lorde.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watche ye, stande fast in the fayth, quyte you lyke men, be strong.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh that there were such an heart in them that they woulde feare me, & kepe all my comaundementes alway, that it myght go well with them, and with their childen for euer?
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 And Samnel spake vnto al the house of Israel, saying: If ye be come agayne vnto the Lorde with all your heartes, then put away the straunge gods and Astaroth from among you, and prepare your heartes vnto the Lord, and serue him onely: For he shall ryd you out of the hand of the Philistines.
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 O Lorde God of Abraham, Isahac, and of Israel our fathers, keepe this for euer in the desire of the thoughtes of the heart of thy people, & prepare their heartes vnto thee.
  • 2 Chr 11:16 : 16 And after the Leuites, there went out all the tribes of Israel, such as submitted their heartes to seeke the Lord God of Israel, and came to Hierusalem to offer vnto the Lorde God of their fathers.

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  • 2 Chr 12:1-2
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    76%

    1And it came to passe, that when Rehoboam had stablished the kingdome & became mightie, he forsooke the law of the Lorde, and all Israel with him.

    2And it fortuned, that in the fifth yere of king Rehoboam, Sesac the king of Egypt came vp against Hierusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lorde,

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
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    24And wrought that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde, neither turned he away from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne.

  • 2 Chr 12:12-13
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    73%

    12And when he humbled himselfe, the wrath of the Lorde turned from him, that he woulde not destroy altogether: and in Iuda all was well.

    13And so king Rehoboam waxed mightie, & raigned in Hierusalem: And Rehoboam was one and fourtie yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned seuenteene yeres in Hierusalem, the citie which the Lorde had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there: And his mothers name was Naama, an Ammonitesse.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    73%

    28And did euill in the sight of the Lorde, and turned not away from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat that made Israel sinne.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3And he walked in all the sinnes of his father which he had done before him, and his heart was not perfect with the Lorde his God, as the heart of Dauid his father.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    73%

    52But he did euyl in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, & in the way of his mother, & in the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, whiche made Israel to synne.

    53For he serued Baal, & worshipped him, and prouoked the Lorde God of Israel vnto wrath, according vnto all that his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    73%

    9And wrought that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde, as did his fathers: And turned not away from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    72%

    24And did that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde, and left not of from the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    72%

    2And he wrought that which was euil in the sight of the Lorde, and folowed the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne, and departed not therfrom.

  • 2 Chr 36:12-13
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    72%

    12And he dyd euyl in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not him selfe before Ieremia the prophete, at the mouth of the Lorde.

    13And he rebelled against king Nabuchodonosor, which had receaued an oth of him by God: but he was stifnecked, and to hard hearted to turne vnto the Lord God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:6
    71%

    6And Solomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and folowed not the Lorde perfectly, as dyd Dauid his father.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
    71%

    26And he did euill in ye sight of the Lord, walking in ye way of his father, & in his sinne wherewith he made Israel sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
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    11And did that which is euill in the sight of the Lorde, and departed not from all the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat that made Israel sinne: for he walked therein.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
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    2And he did euil in the sight of the Lord, euen after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lorde cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
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    18And he did euil in the sight of the Lord, and turned not away al his dayes from the sinne of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
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    32And he did euil in the sight of the Lord, according to all thinges as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
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    2And he wrought euil in the sight of the Lorde, but not lyke his father and lyke his mother: for he put away the images of Baal that his father had made.

    3Neuerthelesse, he cleaued vnto the sinnes of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat which made Israel to sinne, and departed not therefrom.

  • 2 Chr 32:25
    70%

    25But Hezekia dyd not againe vnto God according to it that he had shewed him: for his heart arose, & there came wrath vpon hym, and vpon Iuda and Hierusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    70%

    2But dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde, like vnto the abhominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    70%

    2And did that which was euill in the sight of the Lorde, but not as the kinges of Israel that were before him.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15
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    15And the king hearkened not vnto the people: for it was the ordinaunce of God, that he might perfourme his saying, whiche the Lord spake by Ahia the Silonite vnto Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat.

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
    70%

    34And he did that which is euill in the sight of the Lorde, walking in the way of Ieroboam, and in his sinne, wherewith he made Israel to sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20
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    20And he dyd euyll in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasse dyd:

  • 1 Kgs 14:21-22
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    21Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon raigned in Iuda: and Rehoboam was fourtie and one yeres olde when he began to raigne, & he raigned seuenteene yeres in Hierusalem, the citie which the Lorde did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: His mothers name was Naama, an Ammonite.

    22And Iuda wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and angred him in mo thinges then their fathers dyd in their sinnes which they sinned.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    70%

    37And he did that which was euill in the sight of the Lord, according to al things as his fathers had done.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    69%

    26For he walked in all the way of Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat, and in his sinnes, that made Israel sinne, to anger the Lorde God of Israel with their vanities.

  • 2 Chr 21:12
    69%

    12And there came a writing to him from Elia the prophete, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God of Dauid thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehosaphat thy father, and in the wayes of Asa king of Iuda:

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    69%

    9And he did that which was euil in the sight of the Lorde, according to all as his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:29
    69%

    29The rest of the wordes that concerne Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the booke of the cronicles of the kinges of Iuda?

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    69%

    19And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, according to all as Iehoachin had done.

  • 2 Chr 10:15
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    15And so the king hearkened not vnto the people: but the occasion came of God, that the Lorde might make good his saying which he spake by the hand of Ahia the Silonite to Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat.

  • Jer 52:2
    69%

    2He liued wickedly before the Lorde, euen as Iehoakim did:

  • 1 Kgs 11:10
    68%

    10And gaue him a charge concerning this thyng, that he shoulde not folowe other gods: But he kept not that which the Lorde commaunded him.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8-9
    2 verses
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    8I did rent the kingdome away from the house of Dauid, & gaue it thee: Neuerthelesse, thou hast not ben as my seruaunt Dauid, which kept my commaundementes, and folowed me with all his heart, to do that onely which was right in myne eyes:

    9But hast done euil aboue al that were before thee: For thou hast gone & made thee other gods, and moulten images, to prouoke me, and hast cast me behinde thy backe:

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    68%

    2And he dyd that which is right in the sight of the Lorde, but not with a perfect heart.

  • 1 Chr 15:13
    68%

    13For, because ye were not there at the first, the Lorde our God made a rent among vs, for that we sought him not as the fassion ought to be.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for the people had not yet prepared their heartes vnto the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
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    7And there gathered to him lewde men, the children of Belial, and preuailed against Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender hearted, and could not stand before them.

  • 2 Chr 12:15
    68%

    15The actes also of Rehoboam first and last, are they not written in the sayinges of Semeia the prophete, & of Iddo the sear, which noted the genealogie? And there was warre alway betweene Rehoboam and Ieroboam.

  • 2 Kgs 10:31
    68%

    31But Iehu cared not for this, to walke in the lawe of the Lorde God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sinnes of Ieroboam whiche made Israel to sinne.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
    68%

    21For he cut of Israel from the house of Dauid, and made them a king, euen Ieroboam the sonne of Nabat: And Ieroboam drewe Israel away that they shoulde not folowe the Lorde, and made them sinne a great sinne.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
    68%

    4Wherfore he dyd that which was euyll in the sight of the Lord, as dyd they that were of the house of Ahab: for they were his counselers after the death of his father, to his destruction.

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    68%

    4But sought the Lorde God of his father, and walked in his commaundementes, and not after the doinges of Israel.