2 Chronicles 15:17

17 The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholehearted his entire life.^[a]

2 Chronicles 15:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 15:17

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 15:16).

2 Chronicles 15:17 In-Context

15 All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their mind. They had sought Him with all their heart, and He was found by them. So the Lord gave them rest on every side.

16 King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

17 The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholehearted his entire life.

18 He brought his father's consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into God's temple: silver, gold, and utensils.

19 There was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.

Footnotes

• [a] Lit wholehearted all his days