But the child’s mother said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.

Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.

They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight. So the messengers returned and reported to the king.

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for he married a daughter of Ahab. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

He followed the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was related by marriage to Ahab’s family.

Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops: “Bring her out between the ranks and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the temple of the Lord.”

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord by following the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit, and he did not turn away from them.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.

He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

and even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God. They followed the practices Israel had introduced.

When he tore Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat their king. Jeroboam enticed Israel away from following the Lord and caused them to commit a great sin.

He held fast to the Lord and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.

The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the Lord—to follow the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.