2 Chronicles 17:6

American Standard Version (1901)

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

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  • 2 Chr 15:17 : 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
  • 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
  • 2 Chr 34:3-7 : 3 For 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. 4 And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves [of them] that had sacrificed unto them. 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about. 7 And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
  • Job 22:26 : 26 For then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, And shalt lift up thy face unto God.
  • Ps 18:21-22 : 21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his ordinances were before me, And I put not away his statutes from me.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 ALEPH. Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah.
  • Ps 138:5 : 5 Yea, they shall sing of the ways of Jehovah; For great is the glory of Jehovah.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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  • 2 Chr 19:3-4
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    3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.

    4And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back unto Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
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    3for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    43And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 17:1-5
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    1And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel.

    2And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

    3And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baalim,

    4but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

    5Therefore Jehovah established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
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    5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

  • 2 Chr 34:2-8
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    2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

    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.

    4And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves [of them] that had sacrificed unto them.

    5And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

    6And [so did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

    7And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

    8Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
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    15And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16And he built up the altar of Jehovah, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
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    32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah.

    33Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
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    19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Jehovah] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
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    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    35Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    75%

    4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
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    4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    74%

    14But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    74%

    1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  • 2 Chr 17:12
    73%

    12And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    73%

    3Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
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    8And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    33And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

    15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
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    6So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Jehovah his God.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
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    10And the fear of Jehovah fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
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    4He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

    5He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among them] that were before him.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
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    2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
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    12And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
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    3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
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    16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God; for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
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    12Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and upon it shall ye burn incense?

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
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    18And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Jehovah, worshipping Jehovah.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
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    11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;