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2 Chronicles 15

2 Chron. 15:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But 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)
z were not taken away
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}
out of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
: nevertheless the 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
of Asa
'Aca' (Hebrew #609)
Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
KJV usage: Asa.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
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
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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2 Chron. 14:3,5• 3and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
 5And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him. (2 Chron. 14:3,5)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the high places.
2 Chron. 14:3‑5• 3and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;
 4and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah the God of their fathers, and to practise the law and the commandment.
 5And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him. (2 Chron. 14:3‑5)
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Deut. 12:13‑14• 13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;
 14but in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee. (Deut. 12:13‑14)
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1 Kings 3:2‑4• 2Only, the people sacrificed on the high places; for there was no house built to the name of Jehovah, until those days.
 3And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
 4And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer up upon that altar. (1 Kings 3:2‑4)
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1 Kings 22:43• 43And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah. Only, the high places were not removed: the people offered and burned incense still on the high places. (1 Kings 22:43)
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2 Kings 12:3• 3Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. (2 Kings 12:3)
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2 Kings 14:4• 4Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. (2 Kings 14:4)
the heart of Asa.
2 Chron. 16:7‑12• 7And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore has the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.
 8Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army, with very many chariots and horsemen? but when thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.
 9For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro through the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
 10And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
 11And behold the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
 12And Asa in the thirty-ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was extremely great; yet in his disease he did not seek Jehovah, but the physicians. (2 Chron. 16:7‑12)
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1 Kings 11:4• 4And 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 Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father. (1 Kings 11:4)
• He failed in one detail which seemed insignificant. The Word tells us (2 Chron. 14:5) that "he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places," but we learn in 2 Chron. 15:17 that they "were not removed from Israel," that is to say, I would believe, from the cities of Israel which he had conquered (2 Chron. 15:8). This seemed to be of little importance, for he had removed all the abominations from these same cities. But when it is a matter of separation from evil, nothing is unimportant. (“Asa - Strength and Purification: 2 Chronicles 15” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the high places were not removed from Israel; only, Asa’s heart was perfectb all his days.

JND Translation Notes

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See 2 Sam. 22.24.