2 Chronicles 15:17
While the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa was completely devoted to the Lord all his life.
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18He brought into God's Temple the silver and gold articles he and his father had dedicated.
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1 Kings 3:2In those days, however, the people still sacrificed on the high places because a Temple to honor the Lord hadn't yet been built.
1 Kings 11:4As Solomon grew old, his wives led him to follow other gods, and he did not commit himself wholeheartedly to the Lord as his father David had done.
2 Kings 12:3Even so, the high places were not removed—the people went on sacrificing and presenting burnt offerings at these places.
2 Chronicles 14:3He took down the foreign altars and high places, smashed their sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
2 Chronicles 20:32Jehoshaphat followed the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it. He did what was right in the Lord's sight.
2 Chronicles 28:4He presented sacrifices and burned incense offerings on the high places, on the mountain tops, and under every living 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 →