17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
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Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest: …
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-19)We are here told what good effect the foregoing sermon had upon Asa. I. He grew more bold for God than he had been. His victory would inspire him with some new degrees of resolution, but this message from God with much more. Now he took courage. he saw how necessary a further reformation was, and what assurance he had of God’s presence with him in it; and this made him daring, and helped him over…
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