He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
- BSB And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
- ESV And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
- NKJV He also did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
- NASB He did evil in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with everything that Jehoiakim had done.
- NLT But Zedekiah did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as Jehoiakim had done.
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Cross-references · 5
- 2 Kgs 23:37He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.
- 2 Chr 36:12He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.
- Jer 24:8“‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
- Jer 37:1–21Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
- Ezek 21:25“‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
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