2 Chronicles 17:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 15:17 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 20:33 : 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.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 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.
  • 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 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;
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;
  • 2 Chr 31:1 : 1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
  • 2 Chr 34:3-7 : 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. 4 He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them. 5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean. 6 And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about. 7 He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.
  • Job 22:26 : 26 For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.
  • Ps 18:21-22 : 21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God. 22 For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.
  • Ps 138:5 : 5 They will make songs about the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 19:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    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.

    4 And Jehoshaphat was living in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, guiding them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    79%

    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;

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    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 Chr 17:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1 And Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place, and made himself strong against Israel.

    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,

    4 But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

    5 So the Lord made his kingdom strong; and all Judah gave offerings to Jehoshaphat, and he had great wealth and honour.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    78%

    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 34:2-8
    7 verses
    77%

    2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

    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.

    4 He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

    6 And in all the towns of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon as far as Naphtali, he made waste their houses round about.

    7 He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

    8 Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God.

  • 2 Chr 33:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

    16 And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    76%

    19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    75%

    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 Kgs 15:4
    75%

    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 Kgs 14:4
    74%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    74%

    1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

  • 2 Chr 17:12
    73%

    12 Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.

  • 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.

  • 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 Chr 34:33
    73%

    33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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

    14 The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

    15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6 And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18 Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
    71%

    6 So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    71%

    10 And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

    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 Kgs 3:2
    71%

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    71%

    3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    71%

    16 But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.

  • Jer 17:2
    70%

    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8 Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
    70%

    18 Then Jehoshaphat went down with his face to the earth, and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem gave worship to the Lord, falling down before him.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    70%

    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;