2 Kings 22:2

2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

2 Kings 22:2 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 22:2

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord
In the affair of religious worship especially, as well as in other things:

and walked in all the ways of David his father;
in his religious ways, in which he never departed from his God:

and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left;
but kept an even, constant, path of worship and duty, according to the law of God.

2 Kings 22:2 In-Context

1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

3 It happened in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying,

4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:

5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house,