2 Chronicles 17:6

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves 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: for as yet the people had not prepared 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 taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for 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 the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. 4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them. 5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
  • Job 22:26 : 26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
  • Ps 18:21-22 : 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
  • Ps 138:5 : 5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 W is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 19:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

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

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    79%

    3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 17:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    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 Israel.

    5 Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    78%

    5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

  • 2 Chr 34:2-8
    7 verses
    77%

    2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

    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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

    4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

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

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

    7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

    8 Now 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 the LORD his God.

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

    15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
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    77%

    32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

    33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    76%

    19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD 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
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    75%

    35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    75%

    4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    74%

    4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    74%

    14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 17:12
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    73%

    8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    73%

    33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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

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

    15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18 And 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 the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 27:6
    71%

    6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    71%

    10 And the fear of the LORD 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
    2 verses
    71%

    4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    71%

    2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
    71%

    12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    71%

    16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

  • Jer 17:2
    70%

    2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12 Hath 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 burn incense upon it?

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
    70%

    18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    70%

    11 And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: