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Douay-Rheims Bible

2 Chronicles 17:4

But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Jehoshaphat;   Obedience;   Religion;   Rulers;   Seekers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Seeking God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Seeking God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Jerusalem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judah, tribe and kingdom;   King;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Preaching;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   High Place;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Jehoshaphat (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but sought the God of his father and walked by his commands, not according to the practices of Israel.
Hebrew Names Version
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his mitzvot, and not after the doings of Yisra'el.
King James Version
But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
English Standard Version
but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.
New Century Version
but from the God of his father. He obeyed God's commands and did not live as the people of Israel lived.
New English Translation
but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.
Amplified Bible
but sought the God of his father, and walked in (obeyed) His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.
New American Standard Bible
but sought the God of his father, followed His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.
World English Bible
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But sought the Lorde God of his father, and walked in his commandements, and not after the trade of Israel.
Legacy Standard Bible
but sought the God of his father, walked in His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.
Berean Standard Bible
but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
but seeking the God of his father and living by his mitzvot, not by what Isra'el did.
Darby Translation
but he sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Easy-to-Read Version
He looked for the God his ancestors followed. He followed God's commands and did not live the same way the Israelites lived.
George Lamsa Translation
But he prayed to the LORD God of his father and walked in his commandments and kept his statutes, and did not do according to the ways of Israel.
Good News Translation
He served his father's God, obeyed God's commands, and did not act the way the kings of Israel did.
Lexham English Bible
but he sought after the God of his ancestors and walked in his commandments and not according to the works of Israel.
Literal Translation
For he sought to the God of his father, and he walked in His commands, and not according to the deeds of Israel.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but the God of his father, & walked in his commaundementes, & not after the workes of Israel:
American Standard Version
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Bible in Basic English
But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But sought the Lorde God of his father, and walked in his commaundementes, and not after the doinges of Israel.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in His commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
King James Version (1611)
But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandements, and not after the doings of Israel:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
but he sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in the commandments of his father, and not according to the works of Israel.
English Revised Version
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but in the Lord God of Dauid, his fadir, and he yede in the comaundementis of God, and not bi the synnes of Israel.
Update Bible Version
but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Webster's Bible Translation
But sought to the [LORD] God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
New King James Version
but sought the God [fn] of his father, and walked in His commandments and not according to the acts of Israel.
New Living Translation
He sought his father's God and obeyed his commands instead of following the evil practices of the kingdom of Israel.
New Life Bible
He looked to the God of his father, followed His Laws, and did not act as Israel did.
New Revised Standard
but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the ways of Israel.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for, unto the God of his father, he sought, and, in his commandments, he walked, - and not according to the doing of Israel.
Revised Standard Version
but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the ways of Israel.
Young's Literal Translation
for to the God of his father he hath sought, and in His commands he hath walked, and not according to the work of Israel.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
but sought the God of his father, followed His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.

Contextual Overview

1 And Josaphat his son reigned in his stead, and grew strong against Israel. 2 And he placed numbers of soldiers in all the fortified cities of Juda. And he put garrisons in the land of Juda, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 3 And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim, 4 But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel. 5 And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda brought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much glory. 6 And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda. 7 And in the third year of his reign, he sent of his princes Benhail, and Abdias, and Zacharias, and Nathanael, and Micheas, to teach in the cites of Juda: 8 And with them the Levites, Semeias, and Nathanias, and Zabadias, and Asael, and Semiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonias, and Tobias, and Thobadonias Levites, and with them Elisama, and Joram priests. 9 And they taught the people in Juda, having with them the book of the law of the Lord: and they went about all the cities of Juda, and instructed the people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

walked: Luke 1:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:1

not after: 1 Kings 12:28, 1 Kings 12:30, 1 Kings 12:33, 1 Kings 13:33, 1 Kings 13:34, 1 Kings 16:31-33, 2 Kings 8:18, 2 Kings 17:19, Jeremiah 3:7, Jeremiah 3:8, Hosea 4:15

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:14 - as thy 2 Chronicles 21:12 - in the ways of Jehoshaphat 2 Chronicles 22:9 - the son of Jehoshaphat

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.
Genesis 16:10
And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 17:1
And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
Genesis 17:11
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.
Genesis 17:18
And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.
Genesis 22:17
I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
Genesis 32:12
Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 35:11
And said to him: I am God almighty, increase thou and be multiplied. Nations and peoples of nations shall be from thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
Genesis 48:19
But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But sought to the Lord God of his fathers,.... Prayed to him, worshipped and served him:

and walked in his commandments; observed and kept them, moral, ceremonial, and judicial:

and not after the doings of Israel: who worshipped the golden calves at Dan and Bethel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The doings of Israel - i. e. the especially idolatrous doings of the time - the introduction and establishment of the worship of Baal and the groves.


 
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