2 Chronicles 17:6
And when his heart had taken courage because of the ways of the Lord, he now also took away the high places and the sacred groves from Judah.
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Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the Lord your God, with gladness and a joyful heart, over the abundance of all things.
2 Chronicles 14:2Now Asa did what was good and pleasing in the sight of his God. And he overturned the altars of foreign worship, and the high places.
2 Chronicles 15:17But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.
2 Chronicles 20:33Yet truly, he did not take away the high places, and the people still had not directed their heart to the Lord, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:3Now in the eighth year of his reign, when he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David. And in the twelfth year after he had begun to reign, he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the sacred groves, and the idols, and the graven images.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 17:2-10
Jehoshaphat Succeeds Asa. ( b. c. 914.) 1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. 2 And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken. 3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim; 4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of… Read the whole commentary →