¹⁷ But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

¹³ Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

¹⁴ But in the place marked out by the Lord in one of your tribes, there let your burned offerings be offered, and there do what I have given you orders to do.

² But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

³ And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

⁴ And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

⁴ For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

⁴³ He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

³ But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

⁴ But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

³ For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

⁴ And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.

⁵ And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

⁷ At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa, king of Judah, and said to him, Because you have put your faith in the king of Aram and not in the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has got away out of your hands.

⁸ Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands.

⁹ For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

¹⁰ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.

¹¹ Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

¹² In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.