King James Version
2 Kings 18:3 in the King James Version says “And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.”
2 Kings 18:3 · KJV
Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. Hezekiah: he is called Ezekias
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. images: Heb. statues Nehushtan: that is, A piece of brass
He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“in the sight”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“his father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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