2 Chronicles 17:6
He was sincerely committed to what the Lord wanted. He also 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 happiness and with a joyful attitude,
2 Chronicles 14:2Asa did what was good and right in the Lord's sight.
2 Chronicles 15:17While the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa was completely devoted to the Lord all his life.
2 Chronicles 20:33However, the high places were not removed, and the people were not committed to the God of their forefathers.
2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to publicly worship the God of David his forefather, and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the metal images.
Psalms 18:21For I have followed the Lord's ways; I have not sinned by turning away 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 →