2 Chronicles 17:6

And he lift vp his heart vnto the wayes of the Lord, and he tooke away moreouer the hie places and the groues out of Iudah.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 the Lord stablished the kingdome in his hande, and all Iudah brought presents to Iehoshaphat, so that he had of riches and honour in abundance.

7And in the thirde yere of his reigne he sent his princes, Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethaneel, and Michaiah, that they should teach in the cities of Iudah,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:47Because thou seruedst not the Lord thy God with ioyfulnesse and with a good heart for the abundance of all things.

2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did that was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 15:17But the hie places were not taken away out of Israel: yet the heart of Asa was perfit all his dayes.

2 Chronicles 20:33Howbeit the hie places were not taken away: for the people had not yet prepared their hearts vnto the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eight yeere of his reigne (when he was yet a childe) he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father: and in the twelft yeere he began to purge Iudah, and Ierusalem from the hie places, and the groues, and the carued images, and molten images:

Psalms 18:21Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.

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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