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2 Chron. 17:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And his heart βwas lifted up in thea ways of the Lord: moreover heb took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

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i.e. was encouraged.

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Psa. 18:21‑22• ²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²²For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. (Psa. 18:21‑22)

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2 Chron. 19:3• ³Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. (2 Chron. 19:3)

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2 Chron. 20:33• ³³Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 20:33)

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his heart.

Deut. 28:47• ⁴⁷Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; (Deut. 28:47)

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Job 22:26• ²⁶For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. (Job 22:26)

lifted up.

that is, was encouraged.

in the ways.

Psa. 18:21‑22• ²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²²For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. (Psa. 18:21‑22)

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Psa. 119:1• ¹ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. (Psa. 119:1)

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Psa. 138:5• ⁵Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord. (Psa. 138:5)

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Hos. 14:9• ⁹Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. (Hos. 14:9)

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Acts 13:10• ¹⁰And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? (Acts 13:10)

he took away.

2 Chron. 14:3• ³For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: (2 Chron. 14:3)

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2 Chron. 15:17• ¹⁷But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. (2 Chron. 15:17)

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2 Chron. 19:3• ³Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God. (2 Chron. 19:3)

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2 Chron. 20:33• ³³Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 20:33)

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2 Chron. 31:1• ¹Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake 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 children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. (2 Chron. 31:1)

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2 Chron. 34:3‑7• ³For 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 carved images, and the molten images.
⁴And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
⁵And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
⁶And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
⁷And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 34:3‑7)

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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)

• The first book of Kings (1 Kings 22:43) seems to say the opposite: "Only, the high places were not removed: the people offered and burned incense still on the high places." This passage, which seems to be contradictory, appears to be confirmed even in our book which says: "Only the high places were not removed; and as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers" (2 Chron. 20:33). This only proves that at the beginning of his reign Jehoshaphat undertook to abolish them and maintained this personally; but that the people, whose consciences had not been reached, quickly fell back into these idolatrous practices against which Jehoshaphat, weakened by his alliance with the king of Israel, was unable to exercise his authority so as to lead the people in the right way. (“Jehoshaphat - The Teaching of the Law: 2 Chronicles 17” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he took couragea in the ways of Jehovah; moreover, he removed the high places and Asherahs out of Judah.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "his heart was raised."