2 Chronicles 15:17

Asa's Religious Reforms

¹⁶ King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley. ¹⁷ The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholehearted his entire life. ¹⁸ He brought his father’s consecrated gifts and his own consecrated gifts into God’s temple: silver, gold, and utensils.

High Place

High Places

To the Lord

Asa

Israel

Deuteronomy 12:13-14

Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in all the sacred places you see.

1 Kings 3:2-4

However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name had not been built.

1 Kings 11:4

When Solomon was old, his wives seduced him to follow other gods. He was not completely devoted to Yahweh his God, as his father David had been.

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 12:3

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 14:4

Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Chronicles 14:3-5

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

2 Chronicles 16:7-12

At that time, Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and said to him, “Because you depended on the king of Aram and have not depended on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.