2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
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Deuteronomy 28:47because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things:
2 Chronicles 14:2And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
2 Chronicles 15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles 20:33Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from 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 →