2 Chronicles 17:4
Good News Translation
He served his father's God, obeyed God's commands, and did not act the way the kings of Israel did.

New Revised Standard Version
but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the ways of Israel.

New American Bible
Rather, he sought the God of his father and walked in his commands, and not the practices of Israel.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

walked

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

1 Thessalonians 2:12 We testified to every one of you that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:1 For the rest therefore, brethren, pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus that, as you have received from us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

not after

1 Kings 12:28,30,33 And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. . . .

1 Kings 13:33 After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a priest of the high places.

1 Kings 13:33,34 After these words, Jeroboam came not back from his wicked way: but on the contrary, he made of the meanest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he filled his hand, and he was made a priest of the high places. . . .

1 Kings 16:31-33 Nor was it enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat: but he also took to wife Jezabel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians. And he went, and served Baal, and adored him. . . .

2 Kings 8:18 And he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Achab had walked: for the daughter of Achab was his wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

2 Kings 17:19 But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

Jeremiah 3:7,8 And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw, . . .

Hosea 4:15 If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not Juda offend: and go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into Bethaven, and do not swear: The Lord liveth.

Context
Jehoshaphat Reigns in Judah
3And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim, 4But in the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not according to the sins of Israel.5And the Lord established the kingdom in his hand, and all Juda brought presents to Josaphat: and he acquired immense riches, and much glory.…
Cross References
1 Kings 12:28
And finding out a device, he made two golden calves, and said to them: Go ye up no more to Jerusalem: Behold thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

2 Chronicles 17:3
And the Lord was with Josaphat, because he walked in the first ways of David his father: and trusted not in Baalim,

2 Chronicles 21:12
And there was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda,

2 Chronicles 22:9
And he sought for Ochozias himself, and took him lying hid in Samaria: and when he was brought to him, he killed him, and they buried him: because he was the son of Josaphat, who had sought the Lord with all his heart. And there was no more hope that any one should reign of the race of Ochozias.

2 Chronicles 17:3
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