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Selected Verse: 2 Chronicles 14:2 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ch 14:2 |
King James |
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Asa did that which was good and right--(compare Kg1 15:14). Still his character and life were not free from faults (Ch2 16:7, Ch2 16:10, Ch2 16:12). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Did that which was good - He attended to what the law required relative to the worship of God. He was no idolater, though, morally speaking, he was not exempt from faults, Kg1 15:14. He suppressed idolatry universally, and encouraged the people to worship the true God: see Ch2 14:3-5. |
12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
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 not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD 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 images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.