2 Chronicles 17:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

And his heart was uplifted in the ways of the LORD; moreover, he took away the high places and groves from 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 Nevertheless, 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 19:3 : 3 Nevertheless, 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.
  • 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 Chr 14:3 : 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.
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because you did not serve the LORD your 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 who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke 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 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. 4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. 5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. 6 And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about. 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and 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 you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face to 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 blameless in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
  • Ps 138:5 : 5 Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who 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 deceit and all trickery, you child of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

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  • 2 Chr 19:3-4
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    82%

    3 Nevertheless, 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.

    4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem, and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    79%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    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 Chr 17:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.

    2 And 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.

    3 And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and did not seek after the Baal idols;

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

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

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    78%

    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 34:2-8
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    77%

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

    3 For 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.

    4 And they broke down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were high above them, he cut down; and the groves, the carved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and scattered it upon the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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

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

    7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and 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 removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill 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, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
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    32 And 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.

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

  • 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
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    35 However, 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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    74%

    4 However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned 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 who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke 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 grew exceedingly great; and he built castles and storage cities in Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    73%

    3 However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned 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 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 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 did not depart from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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

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

    15 Moreover, the altar that was at Bethel, 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 broke down, and burned the high place, and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11 Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold found in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king's house, and sent them to Hazael king of Syria. Then he departed 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 around Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 He removed the high places, broke the images, cut down the groves, and broke into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and he called it Nehushtan.

    5 He 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 Kgs 3:2
    71%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
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    12 He took away the sodomites from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
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    3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
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    16 But when he became strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction. He transgressed against the LORD his God by entering the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2 While their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
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    12 Has not that same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and burn incense on it?

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
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    8 And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
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    18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    70%

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.