2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole all his days.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

16And also Maacah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

18And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had hallowed, and that he himself had hallowed, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days.

1 Kings 11:4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

2 Kings 12:3(12-4) Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3(14-2) for he took away the strange altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim;

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 28:4And he sacrificed and offered in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy 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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