2 Chronicles 17:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee 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, even unto Dan.

1 Kings 12:33

And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el 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 unto the altar, to burn incense.

1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

1 Kings 9:4

And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgements;

2 Kings 17:19

Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

2 Kings 8:18

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 14:6

And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.

2 Chronicles 17:3

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baalim;

2 Chronicles 21:12

And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah;

2 Chronicles 22:9

And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him, (now he was hiding in Samaria,) and they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said; He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 27:6

So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

2 Chronicles 29:2

And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

2 Chronicles 34:2

And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

Hosea 4:15

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As the LORD liveth.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

1 Thessalonians 2:12

to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.