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1 Kings 15:5

For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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1 Kings 15:5 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Kings 14:8 (8 votes) and 2 Samuel 11:15–17 (6 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 11 other books, from Deuteronomy 17 to Acts 13.

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Which verses does 1 Kings 15:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.

  2. In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.” So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew the strongest enemy soldiers were. …

  3. And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  4. And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

  5. Psalm 51:14 votes

    For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

  6. So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.

  7. Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

  8. Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.

  9. Luke 1:63 votes

    Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

  10. Acts 13:223 votes

    After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’

  11. Acts 13:362 votes

Which verses point to 1 Kings 15:5?

The 10 strongest of 23.