2 Chronicles 15:17

But, the high places, were not taken away out of Israel,—only, the heart of Asa, was perfect, all his days.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

16Moreover also, as touching Maacah mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made, unto the Sacred Stem, a monstrous thing,—so Asa cut down her monstrous thing, and reduced it to dust, and burnt it up, in the Kidron ravine.

18And he brought the hallowed things of his father and his own hallowed things, into the house of God,—silver and gold, and utensils.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:2Save only, that the people were sacrificing in the high places,—because there had not been built a house unto the Name of Yahweh, until those days,

1 Kings 11:4Yea it came to pass, in the old age of Solomon, that, his wives, turned aside his heart after other gods,—his heart therefore was not sound with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.

2 Kings 12:3save only, that, the high places, took they not away,—still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3and took away the foreign altars, and the high places,—and brake in pieces the pillars, and cut in twain the Sacred Stems;

2 Chronicles 20:32And he walked in the way of his father Asa, and turned not from it,—doing that which was right, in the eyes of Yahweh.

2 Chronicles 28:4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and upon 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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