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de.rekh H1870

דֶּ֫רֶךְ (de.rekh) means “way: conduct” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

דֶּ֫רֶךְ Hebrew · H1870 706 tagged occurrences in 626 verses

Pronunciation guide: deh'-rek Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1870G

דֶּ֫רֶךְ · de.rekh · way: conduct

: conduct/lifestyle 1) way, road, distance, journey, manner 1a) road, way, path 1b) journey 1c) direction 1d) manner, habit, way 1e) of course of life (fig.) 1f) of moral character (fig.)

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TBESH · H1870H

דֶּ֫רֶךְ · de.rekh · Way

This name means way, road

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TBESH · H1870I

דֶּ֫רֶךְ · de.rekh · (King's) Highway

This name means way, road Combined with me.lekh (מֶ֫לֶךְ "King's" H4428I)

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TBESH · H1870J

דֶּ֫רֶךְ · de.rekh · way: direction

: direction 1) way, road, distance, journey, manner 1a) road, way, path 1b) journey 1c) direction 1d) manner, habit, way 1e) of course of life (fig.) 1f) of moral character (fig.)

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TBESH · H1870K

דֶּ֫רֶךְ · de.rekh · way: road

: road/route 1) way, road, distance, journey, manner 1a) road, way, path 1b) journey 1c) direction 1d) manner, habit, way 1e) of course of life (fig.) 1f) of moral character (fig.)

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TBESH · H1870L

דֶּ֫רֶךְ · de.rekh · way: journey

: journey 1) way, road, distance, journey, manner 1a) road, way, path 1b) journey 1c) direction 1d) manner, habit, way 1e) of course of life (fig.) 1f) of moral character (fig.)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H1869 (דָּרַךְ); a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb

KJV glosses: along, away, because of, [phrase] by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).

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How translators render H1870

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the way	62
your ways	24
ways	22
the road	21
way	21
his ways	16
my ways	16
in the way	15
in his ways	14
in the ways	14
journey	14
the ways	13
by way	12
along the road	11
his way	11
in the road	9
the path	9
toward	8
on the road	7
on your way	7
on his way	6
on the journey	6
on the way	6
path	6
their ways	6
through	6
your way	6
along the way	5
by	5
in my ways	5
is the way	5
a way	4
according to his ways	4
by the way	4
in the direction	4
in your ways	4
on	4
road	4
their way	4
to	4
according to your ways	3
along the route	3
and	3
but the way	3
direction	3
facing	3
my way	3
of his ways	3
on their way	3
roads	3
wherever	3
along the path	2
and the way	2
but the ways	2
conduct	2
down the road	2
for their journey	2
for your journey	2
for your ways	2
from his way	2
from the direction	2
from their ways	2
from your ways	2
highway	2
in the path	2
in their ways	2
its ways	2
of the road	2
on a journey	2
route	2
street	2
the distance	2
the roads	2
the same way	2
their conduct	2
their path	2
up the road	2
vvv	2
what he has done	2
a path	1
a ramp	1
a road	1
according to his way	1
according to our ways	1
according to their conduct	1
according to their ways	1
all her ways	1
along	1
along the route to	1
along with his ways	1
along your way	1
and a path	1
and his ways	1
and make your journey	1
and one whose way	1
are my ways	1
are the way	1
are those whose way	1
as is the custom	1
at your behavior	1
away	1
beside the road	1
blows toward	1
bring your deeds	1
but another path	1
by a route	1
by a way	1
by the road	1
by the way you came	1
by their own ways	1
by way of	1
bypaths	1
course	1
did	1
does the way	1
down a path	1
for their ways	1
from	1
from a journey	1
from his ways	1
from it	1
from the path	1
from the way	1
from their routes	1
had made his journey	1
has been your way	1
has made my journey	1
her ways	1
his behavior	1
his course	1
his journey	1
his own way	1
his path	1
his paths	1
his way sure	1
his ways straight	1
i am having my period	1
i will bring their conduct	1
i will bring their deeds	1
in all you do	1
in formation	1
in his journey	1
in his mission	1
in their walk	1
in your own way	1
in your rebellion	1
into roads	1
is in the road	1
is it my way	1
is the fate	1
is the road	1
its way	1
journeys	1
keep your path	1
lie on the path	1
like those	1
long	1
make my journey	1
may their path	1
missions	1
my path	1
of his own ways	1
of his way	1
of the walkway	1
of the ways	1
of their own way	1
of what route	1
of your ways	1
off the road	1
on her way	1
on his journey	1
on the	1
on the mission	1
on the path	1
on the right course	1
on their path	1
on your journey	1
one road	1
or	1
or as surely as the way	1
or clears a path	1
or on a journey	1
or the journey	1
or your vigor	1
our journey	1
our way	1
our ways	1
out of the way	1
out of their way	1
room	1
started on his way	1
than your ways	1
that your ways	1
the crossroads	1
the example	1
the highways	1
the pathways	1
the way i have taken	1
their behavior	1
their course	1
their own ways	1
this way	1
those whose ways	1
to his own way	1
to his way	1
to the desires	1
to the path	1
to their own way	1
until your roads	1
way of life	1
we will stay on the main road	1
where the road	1
whose ways	1
with a passageway	1
with your word	1
works	1
you in the way	1
you on a mission	1
you on the way	1
you the way	1
your favors	1
your journey	1
your own way	1
your path	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the way	66
by the way	65
in the way	50
way	46
toward	27
his way	21
ways	16
journey	15
my ways	11
out of the way	11
in his ways	10
thy way	10
a way	9
of the way	9
their way	9
in the ways	8
in all his ways	7
the ways	7
your ways	7
his ways	6
according to his ways	5
in my ways	5
my way	5
thee in the way	5
thy ways	5
and the way	4
but the way	4
from the way	4
in all the way	4
not the way	4
on his way	4
after the manner	3
from his way	3
her ways	3
in thy ways	3
no way	3
of his way	3
thee according to thy ways	3
thee by the way	3
them the way	3
to their way	3
and his ways	2
and in the way	2
are not your ways	2
conversation	2
for the way	2
him by the way	2
in all the ways	2
in all thy ways	2
in by the way	2
in his way	2
in thy way	2
me thy way	2
not in the way	2
of thy ways	2
on thy way	2
unto the way	2
unto thee toward	2
us of his ways	2
us our way	2
ye the way	2
your way	2
according to their way	1
according to thy ways	1
according unto all his ways	1
after his ways	1
after their ways	1
against thee after the manner	1
all his ways	1
all my ways	1
all the way	1
all the ways	1
along by the high way	1
along that way	1
and a way	1
and if the way	1
and is not in a journey	1
and it came to pass by the way	1
and it came to pass while they were in the way	1
and let all thy ways	1
and lo all the way	1
and make your ways	1
and now what hast thou to do in the way	1
and of all his ways	1
and the manner	1
and was with me in the way	1
any of his ways	1
are not my ways	1
as he journeyed	1
at thee	1
away	1
because	1
because of the way	1
because the journey	1
but as for them their way	1
by	1
by a way	1
by the same way	1
by the way side	1
by the wayside	1
by what way	1
eastward	1
every way	1
for all his ways	1
for all my ways	1
for him in the way	1
for in the way	1
for the custom	1
for the journey	1
for the ways	1
for your own ways	1
from his ways	1
from me the way	1
from thy ways	1
he me the way	1
her into the way	1
her way	1
him and he shall make his way	1
him because the way	1
him his way	1
him in the way	1
him into the way	1
himself in a way	1
his journey	1
his own way	1
in a journey	1
in a manner	1
in a way	1
in their ways	1
in this way	1
is not my way	1
it by their own way	1
let their way	1
make thy way	1
me in the way	1
me now thy way	1
me thy ways	1
me toward	1
mine own ways	1
no more that way	1
none of his ways	1
nor in the ways	1
nor thy ways	1
not by the way	1
not from their ways	1
not in his ways	1
not in thy ways	1
not the ways	1
not thou in the way	1
now the way	1
of	1
of every way	1
of his ways	1
of the ways	1
of their own way	1
of their way	1
of thy way	1
on his ways	1
on my ways	1
on the way	1
on their way	1
on your way	1
on your ways	1
or a way	1
or he is in a journey	1
or what hast thou to do in the way	1
our ways	1
out their way	1
passengers	1
shall be there and a way	1
so are my ways	1
than your ways	1
that the way	1
that thou makest thy ways	1
that thy way	1
the journey	1
the pathway	1
the way toward	1
thee a way	1
thee from the way	1
thee in all thy ways	1
thee in thy ways	1
thee on a journey	1
thee out of the way	1
their own way	1
their own ways	1
their ways	1
them along the way	1
them by the way	1
them for the ways	1
them for their ways	1
them in the way	1
there in the way	1
thine own ways	1
this their way	1
thou me in thy way	1
thou thy way	1
through	1
through the way	1
throughout all the way	1
thy manner	1
to her ways	1
to him the way	1
to his own way	1
to my ways	1
to the way	1
to their own way	1
unto her by the way	1
unto thee by the way	1
unto them after their way	1
unto them what way	1
unto us according to our ways	1
unto us after the manner	1
up thy way	1
upon all the ways	1
upon all their ways	1
upon the ways	1
upon their ways	1
upon them by the way	1
upon thy ways	1
us in all the way	1
us the way	1
was in the way	1
wherefore doth the way	1
wherefore their way	1
whether our way	1
which way	1
whithersoever	1
whose way	1
with his own ways	1
with in the ways	1
ye in all the ways	1
ye in the ways	1
you by what way	1
you the way	1

Verses containing H1870

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1 Kings 16:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins.
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1 Kings 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
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1 Kings 16:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.
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1 Kings 18:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So they divided the land to explore. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.
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1 Kings 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”
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1 Kings 18:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
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1 Kings 18:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
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1 Kings 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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1 Kings 19:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”
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1 Kings 19:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
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1 Kings 20:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the prophet went and waited on the road for the king, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.
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1 Kings 22:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 22:52 · BSB · 3 occurrences
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
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Source alternate reference: 22.53
2 Kings 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
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2 Kings 3:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.
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2 Kings 3:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.
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2 Kings 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.
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2 Kings 6:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Elisha told them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you are seeking.” And he led them to Samaria.
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2 Kings 7:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in haste. So the scouts returned and told the king.
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2 Kings 8:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Kings 8:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
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2 Kings 9:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
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2 Kings 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jehu set out toward Samaria. At Beth-eked of the Shepherds,
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2 Kings 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
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2 Kings 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,
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2 Kings 16:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
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2 Kings 17:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”
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2 Kings 19:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
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2 Kings 19:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
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2 Kings 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
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2 Kings 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
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2 Kings 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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2 Kings 25:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
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2 Chronicles 6:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk in My law as you have walked before Me.’
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2 Chronicles 6:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
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2 Chronicles 6:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
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2 Chronicles 6:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—
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2 Chronicles 6:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.
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2 Chronicles 6:34 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of this city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
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2 Chronicles 6:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,
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2 Chronicles 7:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
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2 Chronicles 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.
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2 Chronicles 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, along with his ways and his words, are written in the Treatise of the Prophet Iddo.
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2 Chronicles 17:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,
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2 Chronicles 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
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2 Chronicles 18:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah went up, struck Micaiah in the face, and demanded, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go when He departed from me to speak with you?”
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2 Chronicles 20:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoshaphat walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 21:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 21:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,
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2 Chronicles 21:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
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