² He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

¹⁴ Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.

⁸ Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

² And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.

⁸ For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

²¹ You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

² Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

³⁷ And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

⁴ He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

⁴ But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.