2 Kings 16:2

¹ In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

³ But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

⁴ And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
KJV: Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
WEB: Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in the LORD his God’s eyes, like David his father.
ASV: Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah his God, like David his father.
DARBY: Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not what was right in the sight of Jehovah his God, like David his father,
BLB: Ahaz [was] a son of twenty years in his reigning, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do right in the eyes of YHWH his God like David his father.

ÅB: Ahas var tyve år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte seksten år i Jerusalem. Han gjorde ikke hva rett var i Herrens, hans Guds øyne som hans far David,
OTB: Akas var tjue år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte seksten år i Jerusalem. Han gjorde ikke det som var rett i Herrens, hans Guds, øyne, slik hans far David hadde gjort.
B1930: Akas var tyve år gammel da han blev konge, og han regjerte seksten år i Jerusalem. Han gjorde ikke hvad rett var i Herrens, hans Guds øine som hans far David,

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2 Chronicles 28:1–4
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
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2 Kings 18:3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
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1 Kings 11:4–8
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
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2 Kings 22:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
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2 Chronicles 17:3
And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;
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1 Kings 9:4
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
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2 Chronicles 34:2–3
And 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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2 Chronicles 29:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
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