^{2 Ref} And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Jehovah his God:

^{3 Ref} for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

^{4 Ref} and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

^{5 Ref} 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.

^{6 Ref} And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in those years, because Jehovah had given him rest.