2 Kings 20:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Remember

Isaiah 63:11

I have walked

Luke 1:6

In truth

1 John 3:21

A perfect heart

General references

Genesis 5:22

Bible References

Remember

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and domestic animals that were with him in the ark. God caused a wind to blow over the earth and the waters receded.

Please remember me for good, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

Please remember me for this, O my God, and do not wipe out the kindness that I have done for the temple of my God and for its services!

Do not hold against me the sins of my youth or my rebellious acts! Because you are faithful to me, extend to me your favor, O Lord!

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

(Zayin) Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.

His people remembered the ancient times. Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea, along with the shepherd of his flock? Where is the one who placed his holy Spirit among them,

I have walked

He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

and the Lord will fulfill his promise to me, 'If your descendants watch their step and live faithfully in my presence with all their heart and being, then,' he promised, 'you will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

Solomon replied, "You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

In truth

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the Lord his God considered good and right and faithful.

How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the Lord does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

The Lord is near all who cry out to him, all who cry out to him sincerely.

You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying, 'As surely as the Lord lives!' If you do, the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, "Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!"

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

A perfect heart

May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing."

When Solomon became old, his wives shifted his allegiance to other gods; he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime.

Certainly the Lord watches the whole earth carefully and is ready to strengthen those who are devoted to him. You have acted foolishly in this matter; from now on you will have war.

General references

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.