Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.
- BSB He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.
- NKJV He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.
- NASB He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.
- NLT Asa also removed the pagan shrines, as well as the incense altars from every one of Judah’s towns. So Asa’s kingdom enjoyed a period of peace.
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Quick answer
Asa removes high places and incense altars throughout Judah, and the kingdom enjoys quiet. Faithful leadership brings national peace.
Overview
The Chronicler again notes the removal of high places and sun-images, instruments of unauthorized worship. The resulting quiet links covenant obedience with God-given peace, a recurring pattern in Chronicles. (Note: 2 Chronicles 15:17 says high places remained, a tension faithful readers usually resolve as either incomplete reform or differing categories of shrines.)
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Cross-references · 2
- 2 Chr 34:4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
- 2 Chr 34:7And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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