2 Chronicles 17:6

Jehoshaphat's heart was encouraged in the Lord's ways, and he removed the high places and Asherah poles. Wholehearted devotion produces bold reform.

Cross-references · 14

• Hos 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
• 2 Chr 20:33However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
• Ps 119:1ALEPH Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
• 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 you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
• 1 Kgs 22:43He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on 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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
• Ps 138:5Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; for great is Yahweh’s glory.
• Ps 18:21–22For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
• Job 22:26For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.
• Acts 13:10and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• 2 Chr 31:1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
• Deut 28:47Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
• 2 Chr 14:3for he took away the foreign altars and the high places, broke down the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles,

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