1 Kings 15:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ He committed all the sins that his father did before him; his heart was not true to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ He walked in all the sins of his father [Rehoboam] before him; and his heart was not blameless with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father [forefather].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ Abijam followed all the sinful ways of his father before him. He didn’t follow the LORD his God with all his heart like his ancestor David.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him. Neither was his heart perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Kings 15:3 Cross References

1 Kings 11:33

This is because he has forsaken me, worshiped Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as his father David did.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 3:14

If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.”

1 Kings 3:3

Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.

2 Kings 20:3

“Remember now, O Lord, I implore you, how I have walked before you in faithfulness with a whole heart and have done what is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Chronicles 25:2

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not with a true heart.

Psalm 119:80

May my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be put to shame.

Deuteronomy 17:20

neither exalting himself above other members of the community nor turning aside from the commandment, either to the right or to the left, so that he and his descendants may reign long over his kingdom in Israel.

1 Samuel 25:28

Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.