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2 Chronicles 17:6

His heart was committed to Yahweh's ways. He also removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.

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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

5So Yahweh established the rule in his hand; all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat. He had riches and honor in abundance.

7In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:47Because you did not worship Yahweh your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart when you were in prosperity,

2 Chronicles 14:2Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God,

2 Chronicles 15:17But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days.

2 Chronicles 20:33However, the high places were not taken away. The people still had not directed their hearts to the God of their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek after the God of David, his ancestor. In the twelfth year, he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, and the carved figures and the cast metal figures.

Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh and have not wickedly turned away from my God. 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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