1 Kings 15:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 12:3 : 3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 1 Kgs 8:61 : 61 Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 15:4 : 4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
  • 2 Chr 14:5 : 5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
  • 2 Chr 15:17-18 : 17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life. 18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.
  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 15:15-19
    5 verses
    97%

    15 And all Judah was glad because of the oath, for they had taken it with all their heart, turning to the Lord with all their desire; and he was with them and gave them rest on every side.

    16 And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    18 He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

    19 And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.

  • 1 Kgs 15:15-18
    4 verses
    77%

    15 He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

    16 Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

    17 And Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah, so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.

    18 Then Asa took all the silver and gold which was still stored in the Lord's house, and in the king's house, and sent them, in the care of his servants, to Ben-hadad, son of Tabrimmon, son of Rezon, king of Aram, at Damascus, saying,

  • 2 Chr 14:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1 So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.

    2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;

    3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    77%

    4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    76%

    43 He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 1 Kgs 15:11-13
    3 verses
    76%

    11 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

    12 Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

    13 And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

    4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    74%

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    73%

    35 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    73%

    8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    73%

    3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    72%

    3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22-24
    3 verses
    71%

    22 Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

    23 Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

    24 So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    70%

    3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

  • 2 Chr 16:9
    70%

    9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    70%

    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
    69%

    61 Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

  • 2 Chr 16:11-13
    3 verses
    69%

    11 Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

    12 In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.

    13 So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    68%

    46 He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.

  • 2 Chr 17:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

    3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

  • 2 Chr 15:2
    68%

    2 And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    68%

    9 In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    68%

    5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    67%

    17 However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

  • 1 Kgs 11:4
    67%

    4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

  • Deut 18:13
    67%

    13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    67%

    3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 15:32
    67%

    32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

  • 2 Chr 16:7
    66%

    7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

  • 2 Kgs 18:5
    66%

    5 He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.

  • 2 Chr 33:15
    66%

    15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.