1 Kings 22:43

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

He walked

He turned

Doing

2 Chronicles 17:3

2 Chronicles 19:3

2 Chronicles 20:3

The high

General references

2 Kings 12:3

Bible References

He walked

Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father.

Asa did good and right in the sight of the Lord his God,

Now when Asa heard these words and the prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the Lord which was in front of the porch of the Lord.

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

He turned

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘

This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand.

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
The Lord will lead them away with the doers of iniquity.

Peace be upon Israel.

Do not turn to the right nor to the left;

Turn your foot from evil.

Doing

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

But

there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God.”

Jehoshaphat was afraid and

turned his attention to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

The high

For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and

Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.

But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.

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

He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

General references

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