2 Chronicles 15:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 12:13-14 : 13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see: 14 But in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
  • 1 Kgs 3:2-4 : 2 But the people sacrificed at high places, because there was no house built for the name of the LORD until those days. 3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father; yet he sacrificed and burned incense at high places. 4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he did not turn 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 Kgs 12:3 : 3 However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
  • 2 Chr 14:3-5 : 3 For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves. 4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to obey the law and the commandment. 5 He also removed the high places and the images from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.
  • 2 Chr 16:7-9 : 7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand. 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a large army, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand. 9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars. 10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. 11 And behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, indeed, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 12 And Asa, in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his feet, until his disease was very severe; yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but the physicians.

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  • 1 Kgs 15:11-18
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    11Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done.

    12He took away the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

    13Also, he removed Maachah his mother from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; Asa destroyed her idol and burned it by the brook Kidron.

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

    15He brought into the house of the LORD the things his father had dedicated, and the things he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels.

    16There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

    17Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

    18Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and King Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt at Damascus, saying,

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
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    32And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.

    33Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 15:18-19
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    18And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

    19And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    43And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he did not turn 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 Kgs 15:4
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    4Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 14:1-3
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    1So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land was quiet for ten years.

    2And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

    3For he took away the altars of the foreign gods, and the high places, and broke down the images, and cut down the groves.

  • 2 Chr 15:15-16
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    15And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought Him with their whole desire; and He was found by them: and the LORD gave them rest all around.

    16And also concerning Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
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    3And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did according to all things as Joash his father did.

    4However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
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    6And his heart was uplifted in the ways of the LORD; moreover, he took away the high places and groves from Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned 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 removed 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 Kgs 15:35
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    35However, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
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    3Nevertheless, there are good things found in you, in that you have removed the groves out of the land and have prepared your heart to seek God.

  • 2 Chr 16:9-11
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    9For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.

    10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

    11And behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, indeed, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:22-24
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    22Then King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted, and they took away the stones and timber of Ramah, which Baasha had used to build it. King Asa used them to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

    23The rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, all he did, and the cities he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Yet in his old age, he was diseased in his feet.

    24Asa slept with his fathers; he was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.

  • 2 Chr 25:2
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    2And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
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    9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
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    61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

  • 2 Chr 17:2-4
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    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 the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and did not seek after the Baal idols;

    4But sought the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the practices of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 15:32
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    32There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

  • 1 Kgs 22:46
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    46And the rest of the sodomites, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
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    17Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

  • 2 Chr 15:2
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    2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while you are with Him; and if you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

  • 2 Chr 16:7
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    7And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.

  • 1 Kgs 11:4
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    4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Kgs 18:5
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    5He trusted in the LORD God of Israel, so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any before him.

  • 2 Chr 14:5
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    5He also removed the high places and the images from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.

  • 2 Chr 34:3
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    3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still 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, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images.

  • 2 Kgs 13:6
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    6Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained in Samaria.

  • 2 Chr 16:2
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    2Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent them to Benhadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,