Whereupon 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 Yerushalayim: see your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 17:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his mitzvot, and not after the doings of Yisra'el. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. Common English Bible Instead, he sought the God of his father, and unlike Israel, he followed God’s commandments. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 But in the God of his father; and walk in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel. |
Whereupon 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 Yerushalayim: see your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.
He went up to the altar which he had made in Beit-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 Yisra'el, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
Shlomo loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;
Also Yehudah didn't keep the mitzvot of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Yisra'el which they made.
He walked in the way of the kings of Yisra'el, as did the house of Ach'av: for he had the daughter of Ach'av as wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
He built fortified cities in Yehudah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because the LORD had given him rest.
The LORD was with Yehoshafat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Ba`alim,
There came a writing to him from Eliyahu the prophet, saying, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of Yehoshafat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Yehudah,
He sought Achazyah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Shomron), and they brought him to Yehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Yehoshafat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. The house of Achazyah had no power to hold the kingdom.
So Yotam became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.
He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
*Though you, Yisra'el, play the prostitute, yet don't let Yehudah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beit-Aven, nor swear, 'As the LORD lives.'
They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Yeshua, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.