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

New Living Translation
Although the pagan shrines were not removed, Asa’s heart remained completely faithful to the LORD throughout 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.

Berean Standard Bible
The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully 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.

New King James Version
But the high places were not removed. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was loyal to the LORD all his days.

New American Standard Bible
But the high places were not eliminated; nevertheless Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.

NASB 1995
But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.

NASB 1977
But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to the LORD all his days.

Legacy Standard Bible
But the high places were not removed; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted to Yahweh all his days.

Amplified Bible
But the high places [of idol worship] were not removed. Nevertheless, Asa’s heart was entirely devoted to the LORD all his days.

Christian Standard Bible
The high places were not taken away, but Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his entire life.

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he did not remove the high places, however the heart of Asa was perfect with LORD JEHOVAH his God all his days.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But he removed not the high places; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the Lord all his days.

Contemporary English Version
As long as Asa lived, he was completely faithful to the LORD, even though he did not destroy the local shrines.

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:

English Revised Version
But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Although the illegal worship sites were not torn down, Asa remained committed to the LORD his entire life.

Good News Translation
Even though Asa did not destroy all the pagan places of worship, he remained faithful to the LORD all his 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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole with the LORD all his days.

Literal Standard Version
but the high places have not been removed; only, the heart of Asa has been perfect with YHWH [for] all his days,

Majority Standard Bible
The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

New American Bible
The high places did not disappear; yet Asa’s heart was entirely with the LORD as long as he lived.

NET Bible
The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD throughout his lifetime.

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

New Heart English Bible
But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.

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

World English Bible
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh 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,

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Context
Asa Reigns in Judah
13He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 14The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days. 15And he brought into the house of the LORD the silver and gold and other articles that he and his father had dedicated.…

Cross References
1 Kings 8:61
So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments."

1 Kings 15:3
And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.

1 Kings 22:43
And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 12:3
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.


Treasury of Scripture

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

the high places

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.

2 Kings 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

was perfect

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 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 11:4
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 the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

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1 Kings 15
1. Abijam's wicked reign
7. Asa succeeds him
9. Asa's good reign
16. The war between Baasha and him causes him to make a league with Ben-Hadad
23. Jehoshaphat succeeds Asa
25. Nadab's wicked reign
27. Baasha conspiring against him, executes Ahijah's prophecy
31. Nadab's acts and death
33. Baasha's wicked reign














(14) But the high places were not removed.--The record of the Chronicles--contrasting 2Chronicles 14:5 with 1Kings 15:17--indicates with tolerable plainness an attempt at this reform on Asa's part, which was not carried out successfully. In spite of all experience of the corruptions inevitably resulting from them, the craving for local and visible sanctuaries, natural at aVerse 14. - But the high places [evidently such as are referred to in ch. 3, i.e., unauthorized shrines of Jehovah; cf. 2 Kings 14:4] were not taken away [lit., departed not. Yet we read in 2 Chronicles 45:3, that Asa "took away the high places (cf. ver. 5). But it is clear, even from 2 Chronicles 15:17, that all of them were not re moved, and the discrepancy arises from the well-known Eastern idiom of putting the whole for the part, of which we have in stances in Genesis 7:19; Exodus 9:25, etc. Cf. ver. 32; 2 Kings 9:35, and see below. Asa probably aimed at removing all, and he may have removed all out of the cities (2 Chronicles 14:5), but some remained in the country districts or in remote places. Or he may have swept them away for a short time, and they may have been stealthily and gradually reintroduced. It may be interesting to remark here that down to the present day the cultus of the high places exists - under a modified form, it is true - in Palestine. Every traveller will remember the Mukama which crown almost every hill. The religion of the Fellahin, though nominally Mohammedan, is really, like that of China, a worship of the dead. "In almost every village of the country a small building, surmounted by a whitewashed dome, is observable, being the sacred chapel of the place; it is variously called Kubbeh, "dome," Mazor, "shrine," or Mukam, "station," the latter being a Hebrew word, used in the Bible for the places of the Canaanites (Deuteronomy 2:2)... Just as in the time of Moses, so now the position chosen for the Mukam is generally conspicuous This Mukam represents the real religion of the peasant" (Conder, pp. 304 sqq.)]: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days. [We have here a notable instance of the Oriental exaggeration just referred to. For the very same expression is used by the chronicler (2 Chronicles 15:17), who in the next chapter (2 Chronic;es 16:7-12) tells us of Asa's unfaithfulness in his old age.]

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Hebrew
The high places
וְהַבָּמ֖וֹת (wə·hab·bā·mō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1116: An elevation

were not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

removed,
סָ֑רוּ (sā·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

but
רַ֣ק (raq)
Adverb
Strong's 7535: But, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless

Asa’s
אָסָ֗א (’ā·sā)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 609: Asa -- perhaps 'healer', an Israelite name

heart
לְבַב־ (lə·ḇaḇ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

was
הָיָ֥ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

fully devoted
שָׁלֵ֛ם (šā·lêm)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 8003: Complete, safe, at peace

to
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

his days.
יָמָֽיו׃ (yā·māw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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