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1 Kings 15

1 Kings 15:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Butd the high places
bamah (Hebrew #1116)
an elevation
KJV usage: height, high place, wave.
Pronounce: bam-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be high)
were not removed
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
: nevertheless Asa’s
'Aca' (Hebrew #609)
Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
KJV usage: Asa.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
was perfect
shalem (Hebrew #8003)
complete (literally or figuratively); especially friendly
KJV usage: full, just, made ready, peaceable, perfect(-ed), quiet, Shalem (by mistake for a name), whole.
Pronounce: shaw-lame'
Origin: from 7999
with the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
all his days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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1 Kings 22:43• 43And 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. (1 Kings 22:43)

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the high places.
1 Kings 22:43• 43And 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. (1 Kings 22:43)
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2 Kings 12:3• 3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. (2 Kings 12:3)
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2 Kings 14:4• 4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. (2 Kings 14:4)
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2 Kings 15:4• 4Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. (2 Kings 15:4)
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2 Chron. 14:3,5• 3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
 5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. (2 Chron. 14:3,5)
was perfect.
1 Kings 15:3• 3And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father. (1 Kings 15:3)
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1 Kings 8:61• 61Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. (1 Kings 8:61)
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1 Kings 11:4• 4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. (1 Kings 11:4)
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2 Chron. 15:17‑18• 17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
 18And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels. (2 Chron. 15:17‑18)
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2 Chron. 16:9• 9For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. (2 Chron. 16:9)
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2 Chron. 25:2• 2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. (2 Chron. 25:2)
• Asa’s reign was a long one and singularly blessed; it lasted for forty-one years, thus being longer than the reigns of David and of Solomon. Chronicles gives us the detailed account of all the faithfulness which he demonstrated. (“Nadab and Baasha, Kings of Israel and Abijam and Asa, Kings of Judah: 1 Kings 15” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the high places were not removed; only, Asa’s heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.