2 Kings 15:34
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New International Version (©2011)
He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jotham did what was pleasing in the LORD's sight. He did everything his father, Uzziah, had done.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He did what was right in the sight of the LORD; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He did what was right in the LORD's sight just as his father Uzziah had done.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He did what the LORD considered to be right, following everything his father Uzziah had done,

NET Bible (©2006)
He did what the LORD approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He did what the LORD considered right, as his father Azariah had done.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

American King James Version
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

American Standard Version
And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he.

Darby Bible Translation
And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

English Revised Version
And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

World English Bible
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Young's Literal Translation
and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Uzziah his father did he hath done.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:32-38 Jotham showed great respect to the temple. If magistrates cannot do all they would, for the suppressing of vice and profaneness, let them do the more to support and advance piety and virtue.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 34. - And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. The author of Chronicles says the same, but adds, very pertinently, "Howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord" - i.e. he did not repeat his father's act of impiety. Josephus is still warmer in his praises. "This king," he says (l.s.c.), "was deficient in no manner of virtue; but was at once pious in things pertaining to God, and just in those pertaining to men. He was careful and watchful over the city; whatever needed reparation or adornment, he labored to supply strenuously, as the porticoes in the temple and the gates thereof; and where any part of the wall had gone to ruin, he raised it up again, and built towers of vast size and difficult to capture. And in all other matters pertaining to the kingdom, where there had been neglect, he applied great care and attention."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,.... Jarchi, in 2 Chronicles 27:2, observes, from a writer of theirs, that in all the kings of Judah before him, even in the best, some sins were found; but in Jotham there was nothing scandalous and reproachful; and it is a high character Josephus (i) gives of him, that there was no virtue wanting in him; he was pious towards God, just towards men, and careful of the public good; but the inspired historian chiefly respects matters of religious worship; he did not give into idolatry:

he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done; that is, according to what was well done by him; he did not imitate him in going into the temple to burn incense, which is particularly excepted. 2 Chronicles 27:2.

(i) Antiqu. l. 9. c. 11. sect. 2.

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Jotham's Good Reign in Judah
32In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 33Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. 34And 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 15:3 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:4 The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
2 Chronicles 26:4 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Chronicles 26:5 He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. As long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.