2 Kings 18:6
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New International Version (©2011)
He held fast to the LORD and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the LORD had given Moses.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He remained faithful to the LORD in everything, and he carefully obeyed all the commands the LORD had given Moses.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He remained faithful to Yahweh and did not turn from following Him but kept the commands the LORD had commanded Moses.

International Standard Version (©2012)
because he depended on the LORD, not abandoning pursuit of him, and keeping the LORD's commands that he had commanded Moses.

NET Bible (©2006)
He was loyal to the LORD and did not abandon him. He obeyed the commandments which the LORD had given to Moses.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He was loyal to the LORD and never turned away from him. He obeyed the commands that the LORD had given through Moses,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For he clung to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

American King James Version
For he held to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

American Standard Version
For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

Darby Bible Translation
And he clave to Jehovah, and did not turn aside from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

English Revised Version
For he clave to the LORD, he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

Webster's Bible Translation
For he cleaved to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

World English Bible
For he joined with Yahweh; he didn't depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

Young's Literal Translation
and he cleaveth to Jehovah, he hath not turned aside from after Him, and keepeth His commands that Jehovah commanded Moses.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:1-8 Hezekiah was a true son of David. Some others did that which was right, but not like David. Let us not suppose that when times and men are bad, they must needs grow worse and worse; that does not follow: after many bad kings, God raised one up like David himself. The brazen serpent had been carefully preserved, as a memorial of God's goodness to their fathers in the wilderness; but it was idle and wicked to burn incense to it. All helps to devotion, not warranted by the word of God, interrupt the exercise of faith; they always lead to superstition and other dangerous evils. Human nature perverts every thing of this kind. True faith needs not such aids; the word of God, daily thought upon and prayed over, is all the outward help we need.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 6. - For he clave to the Lord - rather, and he clave to the Lord; i.e. he persevered through the whole of his life; he did not fall into sins at the last, like Asa and Azariah (see 2 Chronicles 16:7-12; 2 Chronicles 26.' 16-21) - and departed not from following him. The writer probably considers "the princes of Judah" answerable for the embassy to Egypt mentioned in Isaiah 30:4, and excuses Hezekiah's ostentatious display of his treasures to the ambassadors of Merodach-Baladan (2 Kings 20:13) as a weakness, not an actual breach of obedience. But kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For he clave to the Lord,.... To his worship and service; to the fear of the Lord, as the Targum:

and departed not from following him; from his worship, as the same paraphrase:

but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses; both moral, ceremonial, and judicial.

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Hezekiah Destroys Idolatry in Judah
…5He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. 6For he held to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. 7And the LORD was with him; and he prospered wherever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. …

Deuteronomy 10:20 Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name.
Joshua 23:8 But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now.
Isaiah 38:3 "Remember, LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.