⁸ And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of ^[a]Oded the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities ^(A)which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and he restored the altar of the Lord that was before the vestibule of the Lord.

¹⁷ But ^(A)the ^[a]high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

¹⁸ He also brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated: silver and gold and utensils.