2 Kings 18:3

2 Kings 18:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
• New International Version (NIV)He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.

Context of 2 Kings 18:3

1Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king. 2He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with everything that his father David had done. 4He removed the high places and smashed the memorial stones to pieces, and cut down the Asherah. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan. 5He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel; and after him there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who came before him.

2 Kings 18:3 word by word

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הַיָּשָׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֖ה דָּוִ֥ד אָבִֽיו׃Read the interlinear

• He didעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• whatיָשָׁרyâshâr · uprightH3477
• rightיָשָׁרyâshâr · uprightH3477
• in the sightעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eye: appearanceH5869
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• in accordance with everythingכֹּלkôl kôl · allH3605
• that his fatherאָב'âb · fatherH1
• Davidדָּוִדdâvid dâvîyd · DavidH1732

Cross-references for 2 Kings 18:3

• 2 Kings 20:3“Please, Lord, just remember how I have walked before You wholeheartedly and in truth, and have done what is good in Your sight!” And Hezekiah wept profusely.
• Exodus 15:26And He said, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the Lord, am your healer.”
• Deuteronomy 6:18You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, so that it may go well for you and that you may go in and take possession of the good land which the Lord swore to give your fathers,
• 2 Chronicles 31:20Hezekiah did this throughout Judah; and he did what was good, right, and true before the Lord his God.
• Job 33:27He will sing to people and say, ‘I have sinned and perverted what is right, And it is not proper for me.
• Psalms 119:128Therefore I carefully follow all Your precepts concerning everything, I hate every false way.
• Romans 7:12So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
• Ephesians 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
• 2 Kings 22:2He did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked entirely in the way of his father David, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
• 1 Kings 3:14And if you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”
• 1 Kings 11:4For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of his father David had been.
• 1 Kings 15:5because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and did not deviate from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
• 2 Chronicles 29:2He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with everything that his father David had done.

Commentaries on 2 Kings 18:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord - In chap. 29 of the second book of Chronicles, we have an account of what this pious king did to restore the worship of God. He caused the priests and Levites to cleanse the holy house, which had been shut up by his father Ahaz, and had been polluted with filth of various kinds; and this cleansing required no less than sixteen days to accomplish it. As the passover, according to the law, must be…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3He did that which was right … - This is said without qualification of only three kings of Judah, Asa 1 Kings 15:11, Hezekiah, and Josiah 2 Kings 22:2. See some details of Hezekiah‘s acts at the commencement of his reign in Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 3:12.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4Unlike Ahaz (2 Kings 16:2), Hezekiah was more like David. Hezekiah destroyed false worship objects, including pagan shrines, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles (see 2 Kings 16:3–10; 17:9–11, 19). The bronze serpent used by Moses (Numbers 21) had become an object of improper worship.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-32Ki 18:1-3. Hezekiah's Good Reign. 1-2. Hezekiah ... began to reign. Twenty and five years old--According to this statement (compare 2Ki 16:2), he must have been born when his father Ahaz was no more than eleven years old. Paternity at an age so early is not unprecedented in the warm climates of the south, where the human frame is matured sooner than in our northern regions. But the case admits of solution in a different way. It was customary for the…Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Kings 18:3

• Hezekiah
• Iconoclasm
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Religion
• Revivals
• Rulers

In the dictionaries

• David
• Agreement
• Carry
• Put
• Bible, the
• Chronicles, Books of
• Chronology of the Old Testament
• Hezekiah (2)
• Kings, Books of
• Shebna

Commentaries on 2 Kings 18

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings