2 Kings 14:3 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 14:3

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

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ASV

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

WEB

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not as his father David had done. He did everything as his father Joash had done.

YLT

and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, only not like David his father, according to all that Joash his father did he hath done,

DBT

And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

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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

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2 Chronicles 25:2–3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
2 Chronicles 24:17
Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.
1 Peter 1:18
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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It is not enough to do that which our pious predecessors did, merely to keep up the usage, but we must do it as they did it, from the same principle of faith and devotion and with the same sincerity and resolution. It is here taken notice of, as before, that the high places were not taken away,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

As in the case of his father Joash, the early promise was belied by the devious course he personally followed in later life (see 2Ch 20:14), as well as by the public irregularities he tolerated in the kingdom.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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H310147× in canon H7535109× in canon H3477119× in canon

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