And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
Parallel translations
- WEB His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
- BSB And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- NKJV And his heart took delight in the ways of the Lord; moreover he removed the high places and wooden images from Judah.
- NASB He took great pride in the ways of the Lord, and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.
- NLT He was deeply committed to the ways of the Lord. He removed the pagan shrines and Asherah poles from Judah.
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Quick answer
Jehoshaphat's heart was encouraged in the Lord's ways, and he removed the high places and Asherah poles. Wholehearted devotion produces bold reform.
Overview
His heart 'lifted up in the ways of Yahweh' describes godly courage, not pride, leading him to purge idolatry. The reform extends Asa's work and demonstrates sincere zeal for pure worship. Removing idols so God alone is honored anticipates the heart-cleansing Christ accomplishes in His people.
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- Hos 14:9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
- 2 Chr 20:33Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
- Ps 119:1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
- 2 Chr 15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
- 2 Chr 19:3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
- 1 Kgs 22:43And 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.
- 2 Chr 34:3–7For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
- Ps 138:5Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.
- Ps 18:21–22For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- Job 22:26For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
- Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
- 2 Chr 31:1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
- Deut 28:47Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
- 2 Chr 14:3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
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