2 Chronicles 17:6

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Summary

2 Chronicles 17:6

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

His heart

Deuteronomy 28:47

Job 22:26

In the ways

Acts 13:10

He took away

1 Kings 22:43

Bible References

His heart

Because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

In the ways

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD and did not become wicked departing in apostasy from my God.

ALEPH. Blessed are those who walk in the perfect way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

and said, O full of all deception and all licentiousness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

He took away

for he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places and broke down the images and cut down the groves

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

Nevertheless, good things have been found in thee, in that thou hast burned down the groves of the land and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.

With all this the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Now when all this was finished, all Israel went out, those that were present, 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 sons of Israel returned, each man to his possession, into their own cities.

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 groves and the graven images and the molten images.

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.