2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart was exalted in the way of the Lord; and he removed the high places and the groves from the land of Judah.
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Deuteronomy 28:47because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with gladness and a good heart, because of the abundance of all things.
2 Chronicles 14:2And he removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke the pillars in pieces, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 15:17Nevertheless they removed not the high places: they still existed in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles 20:33Nevertheless the high places yet remained; and as yet the people did not direct their heart to the Lord God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.
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 →