2 Chronicles 15:17

But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

16And King Asa deposed Maachah his mother from her regencie, because she had made an idole in a groue: and Asa brake downe her idole, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brooke Kidron.

18Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicate, and that he had dedicate, siluer, and golde, and vessels.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2Only the people sacrificed in the hie places, because there was no house buylt vnto the name of the Lord, vntill those dayes.

1 Kings 11:4For when Salomon was olde, his wiues turned his heart after other gods, so that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father.

2 Kings 12:3But the hie places were not taken away: for the people offred yet and burnt incense in the hie places.

2 Chronicles 14:3For he tooke away the altars of the strange gods and the hie places, and brake downe the images, and cut downe the groues,

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not therefrom, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:4He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the hie places, and on hilles, and vnder euery greene 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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