1 Kings 15:14 Although he did not remove the high places, Asa's heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Although he did not remove the high places, Asa's heart was fully committed to the LORD all his life.

English Standard Version
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.

New American Standard Bible
But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.

King James Bible
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The high places were not taken away; but Asa's heart was completely devoted to the LORD his entire life.

International Standard Version
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed, even though Asa's heart was blameless toward the LORD all of his life.

American Standard Version
But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the high places he did not take away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days:

Darby Bible Translation
But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

Young's Literal Translation
and the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect with Jehovah all his days,

Cross References

1 Kings 8:61
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

1 Kings 15:3
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

1 Kings 22:43
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.

2 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:9-24 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have power are happy when thus they have hearts to use it well. We must not only cease to do evil, but learn to do well; not only cast away the idols of our iniquity, but dedicate ourselves and our all to God's honour and glory. Asa was cordially devoted to the service of God, his sins not arising from presumption. But his league with Benhadad arose from unbelief. Even true believers find it hard, in times of urgent danger, to trust in the Lord with all their heart. Unbelief makes way for carnal policy, and thus for one sin after another. Unbelief has often led Christians to call in the help of the Lord's enemies in their contests with their brethren; and some who once shone brightly, have thus been covered with a dark cloud towards the end of their days.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen—The sultana, or queen dowager, was not necessarily the king's natural mother (see 1Ki 2:19), nor was Maachah. Her title, and the privileges connected with that honor and dignity which gave her precedency among the ladies of the royal family, and great influence in the kingdom, were taken away. She was degraded for her idolatry.

because she had made an idol in a grove—A very obscene figure, and the grove was devoted to the grossest licentiousness. His plans of religious reformation, however, were not completely carried through, "the high places were not removed" (see 1Ki 3:2). The suppression of this private worship on natural or artificial hills, though a forbidden service after the temple had been declared the exclusive place of worship, the most pious king's laws were not able to accomplish.