2 Chronicles 15:17

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Although the high places were not removed from Israel, Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his life.

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  • Deut 12:13-14 : 13 Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see. 14 But offer them only at the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal territories. There you are to offer your burnt offerings and perform everything I command you.
  • 1 Kgs 3:2-4 : 2 However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD. 3 Solomon loved the LORD, walking according to the statutes of his father David, yet he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places. 4 The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most prominent high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 12:3 : 3 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
  • 2 Chr 14:3-5 : 3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment. 4 He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him. 5 He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.
  • 2 Chr 16:7-9 : 7 At that time, Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, 'Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.' 8 Were not the Cushites and the Libyans a mighty army with great numbers of chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand. 9 For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, you will face wars. 10 Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because he was enraged over this. At the same time, Asa oppressed some of the people. 11 The events of Asa's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his condition became very severe. Yet even in his illness, he did not seek the LORD but relied on physicians.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:11-18
    8 verses
    97%

    11Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his forefather David had done.

    12He expelled the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

    13He also removed his mother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. Asa cut down her idol and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    14The high places were not removed, yet Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

    15He brought into the house of the LORD the sacred things his father had dedicated, along with his own sacred gifts of silver, gold, and utensils.

    16There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.

    17Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

    18Then Asa took all the silver and gold left in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace and placed them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, with this message:

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
    2 verses
    79%

    32Jehoshaphat followed the path of his father Asa and did not turn from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

    33However, the high places were not removed, and the people still had not fully set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.

  • 2 Chr 15:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18He brought into the house of God the silver, gold, and articles that he and his father had dedicated.

    19There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    77%

    43Jehoshaphat followed in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them and did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    77%

    4However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 14:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    1Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

    2He removed the foreign altars and the high places, shattered the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.

    3He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment.

  • 2 Chr 15:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15All Judah rejoiced over the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They sought the LORD eagerly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.

    16King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene image for Asherah. Asa cut down her obscene image, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like his ancestor David. He followed the example of his father Joash instead.

    4However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    75%

    6His heart was encouraged in the ways of the LORD, and moreover, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    74%

    3Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    74%

    8When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    74%

    35However, the high places were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham built the upper gate of the temple of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    74%

    3He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    72%

    3But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart to seek God.

  • 2 Chr 16:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9For the eyes of the LORD roam throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, you will face wars.

    10Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because he was enraged over this. At the same time, Asa oppressed some of the people.

    11The events of Asa's reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22-24
    3 verses
    72%

    22Then King Asa issued a proclamation to all Judah with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones and timber Baasha had used to fortify Ramah. With these materials King Asa built up Geba in Benjamin and Mizpah.

    23Now the rest of the acts of Asa, all his might, and everything he did, as well as the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he suffered from a disease in his feet.

    24Then Asa rested with his ancestors and was buried with them in the city of his father David. And his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 25:2
    72%

    2He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
    71%

    61May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.

  • 2 Chr 17:2-4
    3 verses
    71%

    2He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and placed garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

    3The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the early ways of his ancestor David and did not seek after the Baals.

    4Instead, he sought the God of his father and obeyed His commands rather than following the practices of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:32
    70%

    32There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their reigns.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
    70%

    46The rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his might, and the wars he waged, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    69%

    17However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • 2 Chr 15:2
    69%

    2He went out to meet Asa and said to him, 'Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.'

  • 2 Chr 16:7
    69%

    7At that time, Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, 'Because you relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.'

  • 1 Kgs 11:4
    68%

    4As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been.

  • 2 Kgs 18:5
    68%

    5He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    68%

    5He built fortified cities in Judah because the land was at peace. There was no war during those years, for the Lord had given him rest.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    68%

    3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year, he started to purify Judah and Jerusalem by removing the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
    68%

    6However, they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who had led Israel to sin, but continued in them; even the Asherah pole remained in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 16:2
    68%

    2Asa took silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the king's palace and sent them to Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, who resided in Damascus, with this message: