2 Kings 23:37

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

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  • 2 Kgs 23:32 : 32 He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.
  • 2 Chr 28:22-25 : 22 During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the LORD. 23 He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. He reasoned,“Since the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.” But they caused him and all Israel to stumble. 24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the LORD’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem. 25 In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.
  • 2 Chr 33:4-9 : 4 He built altars in the LORD’s temple, about which the LORD had said,“Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” 5 In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky. 6 He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the LORD and angered him. 7 He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. 8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given through Moses.” 9 But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed ahead of the Israelites. 10 The LORD confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
  • 2 Chr 33:22-23 : 22 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just like his father Manasseh had done. Amon offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them. 23 He did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.
  • Jer 22:13-17 : 13 Judgment on Jehoiakim“‘Sure to be judged is the king who builds his palace using injustice and treats people unfairly while adding its upper rooms. He makes his countrymen work for him for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor. 14 He says,“I will build myself a large palace with spacious upper rooms.” He cuts windows in its walls, panels it with cedar, and paints its rooms red. 15 Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him. 16 He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The LORD says,‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’ 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
  • Jer 26:20-23 : 20 Now there was another man who prophesied as the LORD’s representative against this city and this land just as Jeremiah did. His name was Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim. 21 When King Jehoiakim and all his bodyguards and officials heard what he was prophesying, the king sought to have him executed. But Uriah found out about it and fled to Egypt out of fear. 22 However, King Jehoiakim sent some men to Egypt, including Elnathan son of Achbor, 23 and they brought Uriah back from there. They took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him executed and had his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.
  • Jer 36:23-26 : 23 As soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns of the scroll, the king would cut them off with a penknife and throw them on the fire in the firepot. He kept doing so until the whole scroll was burned up in the fire. 24 Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow. 25 The king did not even listen to Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah, who had urged him not to burn the scroll. 26 He also ordered Jerahmeel, who was one of the royal princes, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest the scribe Baruch and the prophet Jeremiah. However, the LORD hid them.
  • Jer 36:31 : 31 I will punish him and his descendants and the officials who serve him for the wicked things they have done. I will bring on them, the citizens of Jerusalem, and the people of Judah all the disaster that I threatened to do to them. I will punish them because I threatened them but they still paid no heed.”’”
  • Ezek 19:5-9 : 5 “‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost. She took another of her cubs and made him a young lion. 6 He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people. 7 He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring. 8 The nations– the surrounding regions– attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit. 9 They put him in a collar with hooks; they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him to prison so that his voice would not be heard any longer on the mountains of Israel.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:31-32
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    31Jehoahaz’s Reign over Judah Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

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

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
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    9He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
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    19He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • Jer 52:1-2
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    1The Fall of Jerusalem Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

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

  • 2 Chr 36:5
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    5Jehoiakim’s Reign Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-21
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:36
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    36Jehoiakim’s Reign over Judah Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    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 13:2
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    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 Chr 36:8-9
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    8The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, including the horrible sins he committed and his shortcomings, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

    9Jehoiachin’s Reign Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 36:11-12
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    11Zedekiah’s Reign Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem.

    12He did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the LORD’s spokesman.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
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    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 21:2
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
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    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 22:2
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    2He 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 33:2
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    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 18:3
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    3He did what the LORD approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
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    34He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
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    3He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
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    2He did what the LORD approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:5-6
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    5The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign and all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

    6He passed away and his son Jehoiachin replaced him as king.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
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    3He did what the LORD approved, but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
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    24He 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 Chr 34:2
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    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 14:22
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    22Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

  • 2 Chr 22:3-4
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    3He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty, for his mother gave him evil advice.

    4He did evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they gave him advice that led to his destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
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    24He 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 Chr 27:2
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    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 Kgs 8:27
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    27He followed in the footsteps of Ahab’s dynasty and did evil in the sight of the LORD, like Ahab’s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab’s family.

  • 2 Chr 21:6
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    6He 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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
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    26He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    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 15:28
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    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 15:18
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    18He 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. During his reign,

  • 2 Chr 26:4
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    4He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
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    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

  • 2 Chr 33:22
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    22He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just like his father Manasseh had done. Amon offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them.

  • 2 Chr 28:1
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 24:1
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    1During Jehoiakim’s reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. Jehoiakim was his subject for three years, but then he rebelled against him.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32He followed in his father Asa’s footsteps and was careful to do what the LORD approved.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
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    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.