1 Kings 15:5

World English Bible (2000)

because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and didn't turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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  • 1 Kgs 14:8 : 8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
  • 2 Sam 11:15-17 : 15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die." 16 It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were. 17 The men of the city went out, and fought with Joab. Some of the people fell, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
  • 2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'
  • 1 Kgs 9:4 : 4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Acts 13:22 : 22 When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'
  • Acts 13:36 : 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.
  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
  • 2 Kgs 22:2 : 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
  • 2 Chr 34:2 : 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
  • Ps 51:1 : 1 Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
  • Ps 119:6 : 6 Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
  • 2 Sam 11:3-4 : 3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4 David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:3-4
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    3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

    4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

  • 2 Sam 12:9-10
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    9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

    10 Now therefore the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'

  • 2 Sam 11:9-12
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    9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.

    10 When they had told David, saying, "Uriah didn't go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Haven't you come from a journey? Why didn't you go down to your house?"

    11 Uriah said to David, "The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!"

    12 David said to Uriah, "Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.

  • 2 Chr 34:2
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    2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
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    3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11
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    11 Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
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    2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.

  • 1 Sam 18:14
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    14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
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    2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

  • 1 Sam 29:6
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    6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,' he said, 'a man on the throne of Israel.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:38
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    38 It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8
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    8 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

  • 2 Sam 5:12
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    12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 18:5-6
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    5 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him.

    6 For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • 1 Chr 17:15
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    15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

  • 2 Chr 21:7
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    7 However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
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    5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

  • 1 Kgs 8:25
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    25 Now therefore, may Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.'

  • 2 Sam 5:4
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    4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

  • 2 Sam 11:14-15
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    14 It happened in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

    15 He wrote in the letter, saying, "Send Uriah to the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck, and die."

  • 2 Chr 6:15-16
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    15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you promised him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    16 "Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, 'There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.'

  • 2 Sam 12:15
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    15 Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
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    3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Sam 8:15
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    15 David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness to all his people.

  • 2 Sam 5:25
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    25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
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    27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 7:17
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    17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

  • 1 Kgs 11:34
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    34 "'However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
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    3 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
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    34 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Sam 11:3
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    3 David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"

  • 2 Sam 11:6
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    6 David sent to Joab, [saying], "Send me Uriah the Hittite." Joab sent Uriah to David.

  • 1 Kgs 9:4
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    4 As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

  • 2 Sam 5:10
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    10 David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

  • 2 Chr 14:2
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    2 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God:

  • 1 Chr 14:16
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    16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
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    5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
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    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Kgs 5:3
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    3 "You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.

  • 1 Chr 15:2
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    2 Then David said, "No one ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever."