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2 Chronicles 26:4

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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 26

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

In this he was not very eminent or zealous; yet he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. He kept up the pure worship of the true God as his father did, and was better than his father, inasmuch as we have no reason to think he ever worshipped idols as his father did, no, not in his latter days, when his heart was lifted up.

This site's exposition

he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD

on 2 Chronicles 26:4-5

Verse 4 repeats the verdict Kings gives at 2 Ki 15:3, and verse 5 is Chronicles' own addition. Uzziah “sought God throughout the days of Zechariah”, and “as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success”. This is the clearest single statement of the book's seeking refrain.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּ֥עַשׂand he did

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • הַיָּשָׁ֖רthe right

    haiyasharH3477 →119 times

  • בְּעֵינֵ֣יin [the] eyes of

    beeineiH5869 →887 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • כְּכֹ֥לaccording to all

    kekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • עָשָׂ֖הhe had done

    ʾasahH6213 →2628 times

  • אֲמַצְיָ֥הוּAmaziah

    ʾamatzyahuH558 →40 times

  • אָבִֽיו׃father his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 25:2

    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 25:14

      When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, bowed before them, and burned sacrifices to them.

    • James 4:8

      Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

    • 2 Chronicles 24:2

      And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

    • Isaiah 29:13

      Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…

    • Acts 8:21

      You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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