2And 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.
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Concerning Josiah we are here told, 1. That he came to the crown when he was very young, only eight years old (yet his infancy did not debar him from his right), and he reigned thirty-one years (2 Chron. 34:1), a considerable time. I fear, however, that in the beginning of his reign things went much as they had done in his father’s time, because, being a child, he must have left the management of…
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