Devine Scripture

2 Chronicles 34:2

2 Chronicles chapter 34 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

Context

v.1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

v.2This passage

v.3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 17:11

    according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

  • 1 Kings 15:5

    because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

  • Proverbs 4:27

    Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.

  • Deuteronomy 5:32

    Ye shall observe to do therefore as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

  • 1 Kings 14:8

    and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes,

  • 2 Kings 22:2

    And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.