2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart raised itself up in the ways of the Lord, and he removed moreover the high-places and groves out of Judah.
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Deuteronomy 28:47For the reason that thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, while there was an abundance of all things;
2 Chronicles 14:2(14:1) And Assa did what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 15:17But the high-places were not removed out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Assa was entire all his days.
2 Chronicles 20:33Nevertheless the high-places were not removed; for the people had not yet directed their heart firmly unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem from the high-places, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Psalms 18:21(18:22) For 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 →