And his heart took delight in the ways of the Lord; moreover (A)he removed the [a]high places and wooden images from Judah.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 17:6 Places for pagan worship

Who is wise?
Let him understand these things.
Who is prudent?
Let him know them.
For (A)the ways of the Lord are right;
The righteous walk in them,
But transgressors stumble in them.

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Meditations on the Excellencies of the Word of God

א ALEPH

119 Blessed are the [a]undefiled in the way,
(A)Who walk in the law of the Lord!

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  1. Psalm 119:1 blameless

33 Nevertheless (A)the [a]high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not (B)directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 20:33 Places for pagan worship

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

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  1. 2 Chronicles 15:17 Places for pagan worship

Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord,
For great is the glory of the Lord.

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21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me,
And I did not put away His statutes from me.

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Nevertheless (A)good things are found in you, in that you have removed the [a]wooden images from the land, and have (B)prepared your heart to seek God.”

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  1. 2 Chronicles 19:3 Or Asherim, Heb. Asheroth

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.

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10 and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, (A)you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

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26 For then you will have your (A)delight in the Almighty,
And lift up your face to God.

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For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still (A)young, he began to (B)seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began (C)to purge Judah and Jerusalem (D)of the [a]high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images. (E)They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them (F)and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He also (G)burned the bones of the priests on their (H)altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with [b]axes. When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had (I)beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 34:3 Places for pagan worship
  2. 2 Chronicles 34:6 Lit. swords

The Reforms of Hezekiah(A)

31 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and (B)broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the [a]high places and the altars—from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh—until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 31:1 Places for pagan worship

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.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 14:3 Places for pagan worship

47 (A)“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, (B)for the abundance of everything,

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