2 Chronicles 15:17

But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

16Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron.

18And the things which his father had vowed, and he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord, gold and silver, and vessels of divers uses.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2But yet the people sacrificed in the high places: far there was no temple built to the name of the Lord until that day.

1 Kings 11:4And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

2 Kings 12:3But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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

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

2 Chronicles 28:4He sacrificed also, and burnt incense 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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