^11 (A)And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father had done.

^2 [a] And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God.

^17 (A)But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.

⁷ At that time ^(A)Hanani ^(B)the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, ^(C)“Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you. ⁸ Were not ^(D)the Ethiopians and ^(E)the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet ^(F)because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand. ^9 (G)For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those ^(H)whose heart is blameless^[a] toward him. ^(I)You have done foolishly in this, for from now on ^(J)you will have wars.” ¹⁰ Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him ^(K)in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

¹¹ And Asa ^(A)cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, ^(B)for we rely on you, ^(C)and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”

³ And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and ^(A)his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.