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1 Kings 15:14

The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

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In The King James Version

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

In Context

13And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

15He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

1 Kings 8:61Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

1 Kings 15:3And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

2 Kings 12:3But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 15:4But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:5And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 15:10-25

Asa's Reign. ( b. c. 914.) 9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord , as did David his father. 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a… Read the whole commentary →

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