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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 15:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 15:14 |
King James |
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Ch2 14:3 would seem at first sight to imply that he entirely put down the worship. But idolatry, if at one time put down, crept back afterward; or while Asa endeavored to sweep it wholly away, his subjects would not be controlled, but found a means of maintaining it in some places - not perhaps in the cities (see Ch2 14:5), but in remote country districts, where the royal authority was weaker, and secrecy more practicable. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
high places
Compare (Ch2 14:3).
It appears that local sacrifices to Jehovah (though not according to the divine order) were offered in the times of the kings upon "high places" (cf) (Sa1 9:12). Apparently Asa's mother had defiled one of these with an idol, (Kg1 15:13). Asa destroyed the idol and the idolatrous (but not the Jehovistic) "high places." But see "high places,"
(See Scofield) - (Kg1 3:2). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| High places - Ch2 14:3. He took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places where they were worshipped: but as for those high places where the true God was worshipped he did not take them away; partly, because he thought there was no great evil in them, which had been used by David and Solomon, and other good men; partly, because he thought the removal of them might do more hurt than their continuance, by occasioning the total neglect of God's worship by many of the people, who either could not, or, through want of faith and zeal, would not go up to Jerusalem to worship, now especially, when the Israelites, formerly their friends, were become their enemies, and watched all opportunities to invade or molest them. Was perfect - That is, he sincerely and constantly adhered to the worship of God. Though he could not hinder the people from using the high places, yet he entirely devoted himself to the worship of God in the manner and place prescribed by him. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The high places were not removed - He was not able to make a thorough reformation; this was reserved for his son Jehoshaphat.
Asa's heart was perfect - He worshipped the true God, and zealously promoted his service; see on Kg1 15:3 (note). And even the high places which he did not remove were probably those where the true God alone was worshipped; for that there were such high places the preceding history amply proves, and Jarchi intimates that these were places which individuals had erected for the worship of Jehovah. |
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.
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:
2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
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:
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:
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.