2 Kings 18:5

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He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:25 : 25 There was no king like him before, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, soul, and strength, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.
  • 2 Kgs 19:10 : 10 "This is what you are to say to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.'
  • 2 Kgs 19:15-19 : 15 Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: 'Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.' 16 Incline Your ear, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to taunt the living God. 17 Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands. 18 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but merely the work of human hands—wood and stone. 19 But now, Lord our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord, are God.
  • 2 Chr 14:11 : 11 The Lord struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.
  • 2 Chr 16:7-9 : 7 At that time, Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, 'Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.' 8 Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand. 9 For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, you will face wars.
  • 2 Chr 20:20 : 20 Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, 'Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.'
  • 2 Chr 20:35 : 35 Later, Jehoshaphat king of Judah made an alliance with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly.
  • 2 Chr 32:7-8 : 7 "Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him. 8 With him is only an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles." The people regained confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
  • Job 13:15 : 15 Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.
  • Ps 13:5 : 5 Lest my enemy say, 'I have overcome him,' and my foes rejoice when I fall.
  • Ps 27:1-2 : 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evildoers come against me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumble and fall.
  • Ps 46:1-2 : 1 For the choirmaster. A song of the sons of Korah, set to soprano voices. 2 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
  • Ps 84:12 : 12 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
  • Ps 146:5-6 : 5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God. 6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains faithful forever.
  • Jer 17:7-8 : 7 Blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him. 8 They will be like a tree planted by water, stretching out its roots by a stream. It will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves remain green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease to produce fruit.
  • Matt 27:43 : 43 'He trusts in God; let God deliver Him now, if He wants Him. For He said, "I am the Son of God."'
  • Eph 1:12 : 12 so that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be to the praise of His glory.

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  • 2 Kgs 23:25
    82%

    25There was no king like him before, who turned to the LORD with all his heart, soul, and strength, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.

  • 2 Kgs 18:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6He remained faithful to the LORD and did not turn away from following Him. He kept the commands that the LORD had given to Moses.

    7The LORD was with him; wherever he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

  • 2 Chr 6:14
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    14He said: 'LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart.

  • 1 Kgs 8:23
    75%

    23He said: 'LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below—keeping Your covenant and showing steadfast love to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart.'

  • 1 Chr 17:20
    74%

    20LORD, there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as we have heard with our own ears.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3-4
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    74%

    3He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.

    4He removed the high places, broke the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and smashed the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because the people of Israel had been burning incense to it, calling it Nehushtan.

  • 2 Sam 7:22
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    22Therefore you are great, O LORD God, for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

  • 1 Sam 2:2
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    2'There is no one holy like the LORD, for there is no one besides You; there is no Rock like our God.'

  • 2 Chr 31:20-21
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    20This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good, upright, and true before the Lord his God.

    21In everything he undertook in the service of the house of God, in observing the law and the commandments, and in seeking his God, he worked wholeheartedly and prospered.

  • 2 Chr 17:3-4
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    72%

    3The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the early ways of his ancestor David and did not seek after the Baals.

    4Instead, he sought the God of his father and obeyed His commands rather than following the practices of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:2-3
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    72%

    2He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, walking in the ways of his forefather David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

    3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols.

  • Isa 36:7
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    7But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar’?

  • 2 Chr 14:5
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    5He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    71%

    6His heart was encouraged in the ways of the LORD, and moreover, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 18:22
    71%

    22But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ isn’t He the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

  • Jer 10:6-7
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    71%

    6There is no one like You, Lord. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

    7Who should not fear You, King of the nations? This is Your due. Among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like You.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
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    3But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32Jehoshaphat followed the path of his father Asa and did not turn from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
    70%

    2He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed in all the ways of his ancestor David. He did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    70%

    2He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8-9
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    8I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

    9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have gone and made other gods and cast images to provoke Me to anger, and you have turned your back on Me.

  • 2 Kgs 19:15
    70%

    15Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: 'Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.'

  • 2 Kgs 3:3
    70%

    3However, he continued in the sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin; he clung to those sins and did not turn away from them.

  • 2 Chr 35:18
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    18There had not been a Passover celebrated like this in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had celebrated a Passover such as Josiah did with the priests, the Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 15:5
    70%

    5For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
    70%

    4And you will ensure that the LORD fulfills His promise to me, saying, 'If your sons are careful to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'

  • Ps 86:8
    70%

    8There is none like You among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like Yours.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    70%

    15He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

  • Ps 21:7
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    7For You make him a blessing forever; You gladden him with the joy of Your presence.

  • 2 Chr 13:18
    69%

    18So the Israelites were humbled at that time, and the men of Judah were victorious because they relied on the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
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    2He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like the kings of Israel who came before him.

  • 2 Chr 6:4
    69%

    4He said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying:

  • 1 Kgs 8:25
    69%

    25'Now, LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, what You promised him: “You shall never fail to have a descendant to sit on the throne of Israel before Me, if only your descendants are careful to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.”'

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    43Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 6:16
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    16'Now, LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant David, my father, what You promised him, saying: "You shall never lack a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons are careful in their ways, walking in My law as you have walked before Me."

  • 2 Chr 26:5
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    5He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. As long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.

  • 1 Chr 28:4
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    4Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and within the house of Judah, He was pleased to choose my father's family. And among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the territories belonging to the Israelites, and he compelled everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign, they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Kgs 1:18
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    18The rest of the events of Ahaziah's reign and what he did are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 14:13
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    13All Israel will mourn him and bury him, for he alone of Jeroboam's family will come to the grave. He is the only one in whom the LORD, the God of Israel, found something good within the house of Jeroboam.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3
    69%

    3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like his ancestor David. He followed the example of his father Joash instead.

  • 1 Chr 29:25
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    25The LORD greatly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel, and gave him royal majesty greater than that of any king before him in Israel.