2 Chronicles 12:14

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He did evil because he was not determined to follow the LORD.

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  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow God.”
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 everyone who has determined to follow God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”
  • Ps 57:7 : 7 I am determined, O God! I am determined! I will sing and praise you!
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
  • Ps 78:37 : 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
  • Ps 105:3-4 : 3 Boast about his holy name! Let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice! 4 Seek the LORD and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the LORD, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.
  • Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek the LORD while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby! 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, Seek, Knock“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Final Challenge and Blessing Stay alert, stand firm in the faith, show courage, be strong.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Samuel said to all the people of Israel,“If you are really turning to the LORD with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the LORD and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
  • 1 Chr 29:18 : 18 O LORD God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, always maintain these motives of your people and keep them devoted to you.
  • 2 Chr 11:16 : 16 Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the LORD God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD God of their ancestors.

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  • 2 Chr 12:1-2
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    76%

    1After Rehoboam’s rule was established and solidified, he and all Israel rejected the law of the LORD.

    2Because they were unfaithful to the LORD, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    74%

    24He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 2 Chr 12:12-13
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    12So when Rehoboam humbled himself, the LORD relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; Judah experienced some good things.

    13King Rehoboam solidified his rule in Jerusalem; he was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. Rehoboam’s mother was an Ammonite named Naamah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    73%

    28He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    73%

    3He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his ancestor David had been.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    52He did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed in the footsteps of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.

    53He worshiped and bowed down to Baal, angering the LORD God of Israel just as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    73%

    9He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    72%

    24He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    72%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He continued in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.

  • 2 Chr 36:12-13
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    72%

    12He did evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, the LORD’s spokesman.

    13He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return to the LORD God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 11:6
    71%

    6Solomon did evil in the LORD’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the LORD, like his father David had.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
    71%

    26He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He followed in his father’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    71%

    11He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    71%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out from before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    71%

    18He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. During his reign,

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    70%

    32He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2-3
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    70%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

    3Yet he persisted in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them.

  • 2 Chr 32:25
    70%

    25But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 33:2
    70%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the LORD drove out ahead of the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    70%

    2He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

  • 1 Kgs 12:15
    70%

    15The king refused to listen to the people, because the LORD was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
    70%

    34He did evil in the sight of the LORD; he followed in Jeroboam’s footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20
    70%

    20He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just like his father Manasseh had done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:21-22
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    70%

    21Rehoboam’s Reign over Judah Now Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king and he ruled for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD chose from all the tribes of Israel to be his home. His mother was an Ammonite woman named Naamah.

    22Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    70%

    37He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    69%

    26He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin; they angered the LORD God of Israel with their worthless idols.

  • 2 Chr 21:12
    69%

    12Jehoram received this letter from Elijah the prophet:“This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says:‘You have not followed in the footsteps of your father Jehoshaphat and of King Asa of Judah,

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    69%

    9He did evil in the sight of the LORD as his ancestors had done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:29
    69%

    29The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    69%

    19He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Chr 10:15
    69%

    15The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.

  • Jer 52:2
    69%

    2He did what displeased the LORD just as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 1 Kgs 11:10
    68%

    10and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the LORD’s command.

  • 1 Kgs 14:8-9
    2 verses
    68%

    8I tore the kingdom away from the Davidic dynasty and gave it to you. But you are not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me wholeheartedly by doing only what I approve.

    9You have sinned more than all who came before you. You went and angered me by making other gods, formed out of metal; you have completely disregarded me.

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    68%

    2He did what the LORD approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.

  • 1 Chr 15:13
    68%

    13The first time you did not carry it; that is why the LORD God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it.”

  • 2 Chr 20:33
    68%

    33However, the high places were not eliminated; the people were still not devoted to the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 13:7
    68%

    7Lawless good-for-nothing men gathered around him and conspired against Rehoboam son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was an inexperienced young man and could not resist them.

  • 2 Chr 12:15
    68%

    15The events of Rehoboam’s reign, from start to finish, are recorded in the Annals of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the Seer that include genealogical records. There were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

  • 2 Kgs 10:31
    68%

    31But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the LORD God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21
    68%

    21He tore Israel away from David’s dynasty, and Jeroboam son of Nebat became their king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from the LORD and encouraged them to commit a serious sin.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
    68%

    4He did evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they gave him advice that led to his destruction.

  • 2 Chr 17:4
    68%

    4but instead sought the God of his ancestors and obeyed his commands, unlike the Israelites.