2 Chronicles 15:17

yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect all his days.

Literal Standard Version

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 Maachah, mother of Asa the king—he has removed her from [being] mistress, in that she has made for an Asherah a horrible thing, and Asa cuts down her horrible thing, and beats [it] small, and burns [it] by the Brook of Kidron:

18And he brings in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God: silver, and gold, and vessels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2Only, the people are sacrificing in high places, for there has not been built a house for the Name of YHWH until those days.

1 Kings 11:4And it comes to pass, at the time of Solomon’s old age, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart has not been perfect with his God YHWH, like the heart of his father David.

2 Kings 12:3only, the high places have not been removed—the people are still sacrificing and making incense in high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3and turns aside the altars of the stranger, and the high places, and breaks the standing-pillars, and cuts down the Asherim,

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walks in the way of his father Asa, and has not turned aside from it, to do that which is right in the eyes of YHWH.

2 Chronicles 28:4and sacrifices and makes incense in high places, and on the heights, and under every green 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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