2-Kings - 22:2



2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Kings 22:2.

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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
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.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David his father: he turned not aside to the right hand, or to the left.
and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in all the way of David his father, and hath not turned aside, right or left.
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.
And he did what was pleasing before the Lord, and he walked in all the ways of his father David. He did not turn aside to the right, or to the left.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, and (a) walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
(a) His zeal was prophesied of, and his name mentioned by Iddo the prophet, more than 300 years before, (1-Kings 13:2) and being but eight years old, he sought the God of his father David, (2-Chronicles 34:3).

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,.... In the affair of religious worship especially, as well as in other things:
and walked in all the ways of David his father; in his religious ways, in which he never departed from his God:
and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; but kept an even, constant, path of worship and duty, according to the law of God.

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