2 Chronicles 17:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments and not according to the ways of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ but sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But sought and yearned with all his desire for the Lord, the God of his father, and walked in His commandments and not after the ways of Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

Common English Bible

⁴ Instead, he sought the God of his father, and unlike Israel, he followed God’s commandments.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ but in the God of his father. And he advanced in his precepts, and not according to the sins of Israel.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ But in the God of his father; and walk in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.

2 Chronicles 17:4 Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 12:30

And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one at Bethel and before the other as far as Dan.

1 Kings 12:33

He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had selected on his own; he appointed a festival for the people of Israel, and he went up to the altar to offer incense.

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.

1 Kings 9:4

As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my ordinances,

2 Kings 17:19

Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.

2 Kings 8:18

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 14:6

He built fortified cities in Judah while the land was quiet. He had no war in those years, for the Lord gave him rest.

2 Chronicles 17:3

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father; he did not seek the Baals

2 Chronicles 21:12

A letter came to him from the prophet Elijah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David: Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or in the ways of King Asa of Judah

2 Chronicles 22:9

He searched for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria and was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 27:6

So Jotham strengthened himself because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 29:2

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, just as his ancestor David had done.

2 Chronicles 34:2

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of his ancestor David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, do not let Judah become guilty. Do not enter into Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear, “As the Lord lives.”

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 2:12

urging and encouraging you and pleading that you lead a life worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brothers and sisters, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God (as, in fact, you are doing), you should do so more and more.