2 Chronicles 17:6

and his heart is high in the ways of YHWH, and again he has turned aside the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

In Context

5And YHWH establishes the kingdom in his hand, and all Judah gives a present to Jehoshaphat, and he has riches and honor in abundance,

7And in the third year of his reign he has sent for his heads, for Ben-Hail, and for Obadiah, and for Zechariah, and for Nethaneel, and for Michaiah, to teach in cities of Judah;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:47Because that you have not served your God YHWH with joy and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things—

2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa does that which is good and that which is right in the eyes of his God YHWH,

2 Chronicles 15:17yet the high places have not been removed from Israel; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 20:33Only, the high places have not been removed, and still the people have not prepared their heart for the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign (and he [is] yet a youth), he has begun to seek for the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he has begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the carved images, and the molten images.

Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of YHWH, || And have not done wickedly against 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 →

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