2 Chronicles 15:17

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

World English Bible

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

16Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

18He brought the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name.

1 Kings 11:4When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was.

2 Kings 12:3However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

2 Chronicles 20:32He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in the LORD’s eyes.

2 Chronicles 28:4He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, 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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