In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.(2 Kings 15:37)

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.(2 Kings 15:38)

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.(2 Kings 16:1)

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.

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.(2 Kings 16:3)

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.(2 Kings 16:4)

Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.(2 Kings 16:5)

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2 Kings 16:2 - Cross Reference

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. (2 Kings 14:3)

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; (2 Kings 15:3)

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)

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; (2 Chronicles 17:3)

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. (1 Kings 3:14)

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. (1 Kings 15:3)

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: (2 Chronicles 28:1)

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. (2 Chronicles 34:2)

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. (2 Kings 22:2)

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: (1 Kings 9:4)

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. (1 Kings 11:4)

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. (2 Chronicles 29:2)

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. (2 Kings 15:34)