⁸ and ^(A)tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been ^(B)like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,

⁵ because ^(A)David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, ^(B)except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

³⁶ For David, after he had ^(A)served the purpose of God in his own generation, ^(B)fell asleep and ^(C)was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

²² And ^(A)when he had removed him, ^(B)he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ^(C)‘I have found in David the son of Jesse ^(D)a man after my heart, ^(E)who will do all my will.’

Ahaz Reigns in Judah

28 ^(A)Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done,

³³ because they have^[a] forsaken me ^(A)and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did. ³⁴ Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes. ^35 (B)But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give it to you, ten tribes. ³⁶ Yet to his son ^(C)I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have ^(D)a lamp before me in Jerusalem, ^(E)the city where I have chosen to put my name. ³⁷ And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. ³⁸ And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, ^(F)I will be with you and ^(G)will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

³ The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

³⁰ Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, ^(A)and tore it into twelve pieces. ³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, ^(B)I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes

¹⁴ And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, ^(A)as your father David walked, then ^(B)I will lengthen your days.”