¹⁷ But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

¹³ Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

¹⁴ but in the place which Jehovah shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

² Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.

³ And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴ And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

⁴ For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

⁴³ And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

³ Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

⁴ Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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

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

⁵ 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.

⁷ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

⁸ Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.

⁹ For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

¹⁰ Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

¹¹ And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

¹² And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians.