2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
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Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 15:17The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.
2 Chronicles 20:33The high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD 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 →