2 Chronicles 15:17

Asa's Religious Reforms

¹⁶ He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah, and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron. ¹⁷ But the high places were not removed from Israel; nevertheless Asa’s heart was blameless all his days. ¹⁸ He brought into the house of God the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils.

High Place

High Places

To the Lord

Asa

Israel

Deuteronomy 12:13-14

“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,

1 Kings 3:2-4

The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kings 12:3

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

2 Kings 14:4

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

2 Chronicles 14:3-5

for he removed the foreign altars and high places, tore down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim,

2 Chronicles 16:7-12

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.