2 Chronicles 15:17

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

In Context

16And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

18He took into the house of God 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 11:4For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

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 Chronicles 14:3For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

2 Chronicles 20:32He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:4And he made offerings and had perfumes burned 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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