2 Chronicles 17:6

And his lev was elevated in the darkhei Hashem; moreover he removed the high places and Asherim from Yehudah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

5Therefore Hashem established the Mamlachah in his yad; and all Yehudah brought to Yehoshaphat minchah; and he had osher and kavod in abundance.

7Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his sarim (officials), even to Ben-Chayil, and to Ovadyah, and to Zecharyah, and to Netanel, and to Michayah, to teach in the cities of Yehudah.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:47Because thou servedst not Hashem Eloheicha with simchah, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things;

2 Chronicles 14:2For he took away the mizbechot hanekhar (foreign altars), and the high places, and smashed the matzevot, and cut down the Asherim;

2 Chronicles 15:17But the high places were not removed from Yisroel; nevertheless the levav Asa was shalem all his days.

2 Chronicles 20:33Howbeit the high places were not removed; for HaAm as yet had not set their hearts unto Elohei Avoteihem.

2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet na'ar (young), he began to seek after Elohei Dovid Aviv; and in the twelfth year he began to make tahor Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Asherim, and the pesilim, and the massekhot (molten images).

Psalms 18:21Hashem dealt with me according to my tzedek; 1 according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me. 1

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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