2 Chronicles 25:2
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.
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In The King James Version
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
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Cross References
1 Samuel 16:7But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
2 Chronicles 24:2And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.
2 Chronicles 26:4He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.
Isaiah 29:13And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Acts 8:21You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.
James 4:8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 25:2-14
Amaziah's Reign and Victories. ( b. c. 838.) 1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , but not with a perfect heart. 3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. 4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses,… Read the whole commentary →