Ecclesiastes 2:21
Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand. But one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.
2 Chronicles 31:20-21
This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and right and true to Jehovah his God.
2 Chronicles 33:2-9
He did what Jehovah considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 34:2
He did what Jehovah considered right. He lived in the ways of his ancestor David and never stopped living this way.
2 Chronicles 35:18
The Passover had not been celebrated like this since the days of the prophet Samuel. None of the former kings had ever celebrated a Passover like this one celebrated by King Josiah, the priests, the Levites, and the people of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem
2 Chronicles 36:5-10
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king. He ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what Jehovah his God considered evil.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, yet one sinner destroys much good.
Jeremiah 22:15
Do you become a king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.
Jeremiah 22:17
Your eyes and your heart are intent only upon your own dishonest gain. You are shedding innocent blood and on practicing oppression and extortion.