2 Chronicles 17:6

World English Bible (2000)

His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim 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 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set 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 put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
  • Deut 28:47 : 47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of 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 in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images. 4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them. 5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem. 6 [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins. 7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
  • Job 22:26 : 26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
  • Ps 18:21-22 : 21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.
  • Ps 119:1 : 1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh's law.
  • Ps 138:5 : 5 Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is Yahweh's glory.
  • Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
  • Acts 13:10 : 10 and said, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you 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 you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."

    4 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    79%

    3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 17:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

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

    2 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 Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,

    4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

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

  • 2 Chr 14:5
    78%

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

  • 2 Chr 34:2-8
    7 verses
    77%

    2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or 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 Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

    4 They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the incense altars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

    5 He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

    6 [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

    7 He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, and 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 Yahweh his God.

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

    15 He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

    16 He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32 He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.

    33 However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    76%

    19 All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Yahweh] 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
    75%

    35 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 14:4
    74%

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

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    74%

    14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh 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 in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had 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 Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.

  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    73%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:8
    73%

    8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
    73%

    33 Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

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

    14 He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, 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, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    72%

    6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    72%

    11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    71%

    18 Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of 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 ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    71%

    10 The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Kgs 18:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    71%

    2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 1 Kgs 15:12
    71%

    12 He put 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 again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

  • 2 Chr 26:16
    71%

    16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.

  • Jer 17:2
    70%

    2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    70%

    12 Hasn't the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense?'

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    70%

    8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.

  • 2 Chr 20:18
    70%

    18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    70%

    11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them; and they worked wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;