2 Kings 16:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

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  • 1 Kgs 3:14 : 14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
  • 1 Kgs 9:4 : 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
  • 1 Kgs 11:4-8 : 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. 7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon. 8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
  • 2 Kgs 14:3 : 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
  • 2 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
  • 2 Kgs 15:34 : 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
  • 2 Kgs 18:3 : 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
  • 2 Chr 17:3 : 3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
  • 2 Chr 28:1-4 : 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father: 2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim. 3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • 2 Chr 29:2 : 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
  • 2 Chr 34:2-3 : 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
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    96%

    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:

    2For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

  • 2 Kgs 16:1
    87%

    1In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

  • 2 Chr 27:8-9
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    81%

    8He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

    9And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    80%

    3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 16:19-20
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    78%

    19Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

    20And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 15:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

    2Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

    3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

  • 2 Kgs 8:25-26
    2 verses
    76%

    25In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

    26Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:32-34
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    76%

    32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

    33Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

    34And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    75%

    2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

  • 2 Chr 22:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

    2Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

  • 2 Chr 26:3-4
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    75%

    3Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

    4And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

  • 2 Kgs 18:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

    2Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

    3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

  • 1 Kgs 22:51-52
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    51Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

    52And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:

  • 1 Kgs 16:29
    74%

    29And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    73%

    32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 28:22
    73%

    22And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.

  • 2 Kgs 14:2-3
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    73%

    2He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

    3And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

  • 2 Chr 28:27
    73%

    27And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 16:16
    73%

    16Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

  • 2 Kgs 14:21
    72%

    21And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

  • 2 Chr 27:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

    2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    72%

    11And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

  • 2 Kgs 9:29
    72%

    29And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    72%

    3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Chr 26:1
    72%

    1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    72%

    2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

  • 2 Chr 36:5
    72%

    5Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

  • 2 Kgs 16:5
    72%

    5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

  • 2 Kgs 13:10
    72%

    10In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
    72%

    2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    72%

    32And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:38
    71%

    38And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Kgs 8:17
    71%

    17Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 21:20
    71%

    20Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

  • 2 Kgs 16:11
    71%

    11And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.