2 Chronicles 19:3

3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asherot out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.

2 Chronicles 19:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 19:3

Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee
Principles of grace, righteousness, and holiness, faith, love, zeal, and other graces, true and genuine, from whence sprung many good works done by him:

in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land;
cut down the groves of trees, and destroyed the idols and images in them:

and hast prepared thine heart to seek God;
through the grace of God his heart was disposed to serve and worship the Lord, and to seek his honour and glory.

2 Chronicles 19:3 In-Context

1 Yehoshafat the king of Yehudah returned to his house in shalom to Yerushalayim.

2 Yehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Yehoshafat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate the LORD? for this thing wrath is on you from before the LORD.

3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asherot out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.

4 Yehoshafat lived at Yerushalayim: and he went out again among the people from Be'er-Sheva to the hill-country of Efrayim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

5 He set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Yehudah, city by city,