⁶ His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

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

³³ However the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

³ Nevertheless 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.

⁴³ He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He didn't turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

¹⁰ and 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?

⁹ Who 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.

⁵ Yes, they will sing of the ways of Yahweh; For great is Yahweh's glory.

¹ > Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, Who walk according to Yahweh's law.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

²² For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't put away his statutes from me.

²⁶ For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, And shall lift up your face to God.

³ For 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, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

⁴ They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.

⁵ He burnt the bones of the priests on their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

⁶ [So did he] in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali, in their ruins round about.

⁷ He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

¹ Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

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

⁴⁷ Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;