1 Kings 15:3 “And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had commi…”

1 Kings 15:3

And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

World English Bible

He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

American Standard Version

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.

Geneva Bible 1599

And hee walked in all the sinnes of his father, which hee had done before him: and his heart was not perfit with the Lord his God as the heart of Dauid his father.

Darby Translation

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.

Young's Literal Translation

and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;

Bible in Basic English

And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

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Cross references

“all the sins”

1 Kings 14:21 1 Kings 14:22

1 Kings 14:21 · BSB

Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put…

1 Kings 14:22 · BSB

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.

“and his heart”

1 Kings 11:4 Psalm 119:80 1 Kings 3:14 1 Kings 11:33 2 Kings 20:3 2 Chronicles 25:2

1 Kings 11:4 · BSB

For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

Psalm 119:80 · BSB

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.

1 Kings 3:14 · BSB

So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

1 Kings 11:33 · BSB

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor k…

2 Kings 20:3 · BSB

“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

2 Chronicles 25:2 · BSB

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Maacah daughter of Abishalom.

4Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.

Read 1 Kings 15