2 Chronicles 17:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:28

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings 12:30

And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.

1 Kings 12:33

He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.

1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

1 Kings 9:4

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

2 Kings 8:18

He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 14:6

He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

2 Chronicles 17:3

And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

2 Chronicles 21:12

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

2 Chronicles 22:9

And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, for he was in a secret place in Samaria, they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 27:6

So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

2 Chronicles 29:2

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.

2 Chronicles 34:2

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

Hosea 4:15

Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

Luke 1:6

They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

1 Thessalonians 2:12

So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.