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

³ for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and ^(A)the ^[a]high places, and ^(B)broke down the sacred pillars ^(C)and cut down the wooden images. ⁴ He commanded Judah to ^(D)seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to observe the law and the commandment. ⁵ He also removed the ^[b]high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.

^4 (A)However the ^[a]high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

³ But ^(A)the ^[a]high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

⁴³ And ^(A)he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless ^(B)the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

⁴ For it was so, when Solomon was old, ^(A)that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his ^(B)heart was not ^[a]loyal to the Lord his God, ^(C)as was the heart of his father David.

¹³ Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; ¹⁴ but in the place which the Lord chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Hanani’s Message to Asa

⁷ And at that time ^(A)Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him: ^(B)“Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand. ⁸ Were ^(C)the Ethiopians and ^(D)the Lubim not a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the Lord, He delivered them into your ^(E)hand. ^9 (F)For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this ^(G)you have done foolishly; therefore from now on ^(H)you shall have wars.” ¹⁰ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and ^(I)put him in prison, for he was enraged at him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.

Illness and Death of Asa^(J)

^11 (K)Note that the acts of Asa, first and last, are indeed written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. ¹² And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady was severe; yet in his disease he ^(L)did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

^2 (A)Meanwhile the people sacrificed at the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days. ³ And Solomon ^(B)loved the Lord, ^(C)walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.

⁴ Now ^(D)the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, ^(E)for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.