2 Chronicles 17:6

And he took courage in the ways of Jehovah; moreover, he removed the high places and Asherahs out of Judah.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

In Context

5And Jehovah established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah gave gifts to Jehoshaphat; and he had riches and honour in abundance.

7And in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethaneel, and Micah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:47Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,

2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the sight of Jehovah his God;

2 Chronicles 15:17But the high places were not removed from Israel; only, Asa's heart was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 20:33Only, the high places were not removed; and as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherahs, and the graven images, and the molten images.

Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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 →

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