but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
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but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.
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But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
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but sought to the God of his father, and walked in His commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Cross-references (12)
Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 17:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 12:28 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- Luke 1:6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
- 2 Kings 8:18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did Ahab’s house; for he married Ahab’s daughter. He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
- 2 Kings 17:19 Also Judah didn’t keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
- Hosea 4:15 “Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
- 1 Kings 12:30 This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
- 1 Kings 12:33 He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
- 1 Kings 13:33-34 After this thing Jeroboam didn’t return from his evil way, but again made priests of the high places from among all the people. Whoever wanted to, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
- 1 Kings 16:31-33 As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him. He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did more yet to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
- Jeremiah 3:7-8 I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, work.
Hebrew, work.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 17:4 But sought to the [LORD] God of…
2Ch 17:4 But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Ver. 4. And not after the doings of Israel.] Who in his days did evil as they could, under that nonsuch, Ahab. But Jehoshaphat was not corrupted with their ill neighbourhood.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Their worship of the calves, or other idols.
i.e. Their worship of the calves, or other idols.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But sought to the Lord God of his fathers,....…
But sought to the Lord God of his fathers,.... Prayed to him, worshipped and served him:
and walked in his commandments; observed and kept them, moral, ceremonial, and judicial:
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and not after the doings of Israel: who worshipped the golden calves at Dan and Bethel.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The doings of Israel - i. e. the especially…
The doings of Israel - i. e. the especially idolatrous doings of the time - the introduction and establishment of the worship of Baal and the groves.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain and not after the doings of Israel--He observed with…
and not after the doings of Israel--He observed with scrupulous fidelity, and employed his royal influence to support the divine institutions as enacted by Moses, abhorring that spurious and unlawful calf-worship that now formed the established religion in Israel. Being thus far removed, alike from gross idolatry and Israelitish apostasy, and adhering zealously to the requirements of the divine law, the blessing of God rested on his government. Ruling in the fear of God, and for the good of his subjects, "the Lord established the kingdom in his hand."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Not after the doings of Israel — Such…
4. Not after the doings of Israel — Such as the worship of the golden calves, and more particularly the Baal and Asherah worship, which was at that time gaining strength in the northern kingdom.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. to the Lord God of his father] R.V.…
4. to the Lord God of his father] R.V. to the God of his father. The Chronicler frequently avoids introducing the name Jehovah (rendered Lord in A.V.) in places where it might be expected; cp. 2Ch_20:12; 2 Chronicles 30. For another and different instance of reverent suppression of the divine name see 2Ch_28:9 (note).
after the doings of Israel] Cp. 2Ch_13:8-9.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain After the doings of Israel. This expression probably marks…
After the doings of Israel. This expression probably marks the doings of the northern kingdom, as both the.more typical throughout its whole history of the wrong, and also as the systematic beginning, "by a law," of idolatrous worship and images in the matter of the calves and so on.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain i.e. the ten-tribe kingdom.
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i.e. the ten-tribe kingdom.
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