2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

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In The King James Version

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

In Context

16And also he removed Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. And Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

18And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of LORD until those days.

1 Kings 11:4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods. And his heart was not perfect with LORD his God as was the heart of David his father.

2 Kings 12:3However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3For he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and did not turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of LORD.

2 Chronicles 28:4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 15:9-19

Asa Reforms His Kingdom. ( b. c. 940.) 8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the Lord , that was before the porch of the Lord . 9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they… Read the whole commentary →

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