16 ¶ And King Asa deposed (A)Maachah his [a]mother from her regency, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa brake down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

17 But the high places were not [b]taken away out of [c]Israel: yet the heart of Asa was [d]perfect all his days.

18 Also he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 15:16 Or grandmother: and herein he showed that he lacked zeal, for she ought to have died both by the covenant, as verse 13, and by the Law of God: but he gave place to foolish pity and would also seem after a sort to satisfy the Law.
  2. 2 Chronicles 15:17 Which partly came through lack of zeal in him, partly through the negligence of his officers, and partly by the superstition of the people, that all were not taken away.
  3. 2 Chronicles 15:17 Because that God was called the God of Israel, by reason of his promise to Jacob: therefore Israel is sometimes taken for Judah, because Judah was his chief people.
  4. 2 Chronicles 15:17 In respect of his predecessors.

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