2 Kings 18:3

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He did what the LORD approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 “Please, LORD. Remember how I have served you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, and how I have carried out your will.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did what the LORD approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.
  • 2 Chr 29:2 : 2 He did what the LORD approved, just as his ancestor David had done.
  • 2 Chr 31:20-21 : 20 This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the LORD his God considered good and right and faithful. 21 He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.
  • Job 33:27 : 27 That person sings to others, saying:‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
  • Ps 119:128 : 128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.
  • 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 right.
  • Exod 15:26 : 26 He said,“If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
  • Deut 6:18 : 18 Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
  • 1 Kgs 3:14 : 14 If you follow my instructions by obeying my rules and regulations, just as your father David did, then I will grant you long life.”
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
  • 1 Kgs 11:38 : 38 You must obey all I command you to do, follow my instructions, do what I approve, and keep my rules and commandments, like my servant David did. Then I will be with you and establish for you a lasting dynasty, as I did for David; I will give you Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 15:5 : 5 He did this because David had done what he approved and had not disregarded any of his commandments his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.
  • 1 Kgs 15:11 : 11 Asa did what the LORD approved like his ancestor David had done.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 29:2
    89%

    2He did what the LORD approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
    87%

    3He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    86%

    34He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    84%

    3He did what the LORD approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

  • 2 Chr 26:4
    83%

    4He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 34:2-3
    2 verses
    82%

    2He did what the LORD approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or 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 his twelfth year he began ridding Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, Asherah poles, idols, and images.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    81%

    2He did what the LORD approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
    81%

    11Asa did what the LORD approved like his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    79%

    32He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved.

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    78%

    2He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.(He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) Yet the people were still sinning.

  • 2 Chr 14:2
    78%

    2Asa’s Religious and Military Accomplishments(14:1) Asa did what the LORD his God desired and approved.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    77%

    3He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    77%

    32He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

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

    20This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the LORD his God considered good and right and faithful.

    21He wholeheartedly and successfully reinstituted service in God’s temple and obedience to the law, in order to follow his God.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    76%

    43He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved.(22:44) However, the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 28:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Ahaz’s Reign Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what pleased the LORD, in contrast to his ancestor David.

    2He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    76%

    37He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    75%

    9He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    2Jehoash did what the LORD approved all his days when Jehoiada the priest taught him.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    75%

    2Joash did what the LORD approved throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.

    5He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.

  • 2 Chr 25:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2He did what the LORD approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.

    3When he had secured control of the kingdom, he executed the servants who had assassinated his father the king.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

    3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.

  • 2 Kgs 16:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what pleased the LORD his God, in contrast to his ancestor David.

    3He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel. He passed his son through the fire, a horrible sin practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

    3Yet he persisted in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    73%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out ahead of the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    73%

    9He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

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

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

    21He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    73%

    5He did this because David had done what he approved and had not disregarded any of his commandments his entire lifetime, except for the incident involving Uriah the Hittite.

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

    52He did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed in the footsteps of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.

    53He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, angering the LORD God of Israel just as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 18:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Hezekiah Becomes King of Judah In the third year of the reign of Israel’s King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz’s son Hezekiah became king over Judah.

    2He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    71%

    19He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    71%

    4but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    71%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He continued in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    71%

    18He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • Jer 52:2
    71%

    2He did what displeased the LORD just as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    71%

    11He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    70%

    28He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    70%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.