2 Kings 15:34 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 15:34

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Uzziah his father did he hath done.

DBT

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

About this book

Old Testament

▾

2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 15 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Cross-references

4 verses on the floor

2 Chronicles 26:4–5
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
2 Kings 15:3–4
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
2 Chronicles 27:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.
2 Kings 16:2
Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his father.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices2

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The history of many of the kings of Israel that reigned at the same time is given us in short, five in succession, all of whom, except one, went down slain to the pit, and their murders were their successors. Zachariah, the last of the house of Jehu, reigned six months, and then was slain and succeeded by Shallum,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Josephus gives him a very high character, stating that he was pious towards God, just towards men, and laid out himself for the public good,--that, whatever was amiss, he took care to have it rectified,--and, in short, wanted no virtue that became a good prince.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

On this verse

loading…

Words2

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H581827× in canon H3477119× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: 2 Kings 15 →