2 Chronicles 15:17

But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during 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

16Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.

18And whatever his father or he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord: silver and gold, and vessels for various uses.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2But still the people immolated in the high places. For no temple had been built to the name of the Lord, even to that day.

1 Kings 11:4And when now he was old, his heart was perverted by the women, so that he followed strange gods. And his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

2 Kings 12:3Yet still he did not take away the high places. For the people were still immolating, and burning incense, in the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3And he broke apart the statues, and he cut down the sacred groves.

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walked in the way of his father, Asa, and he did not decline from it, doing the things that were pleasing before the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:4Also, he was sacrificing and burning incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy 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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