2 Chronicles 17:6New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— He took great pride in the ways of the LORD and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— And he took courage in the ways of Jehovah; moreover, he removed the high places and Asherahs out of Judah.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— And his heart was encouraged, in the ways of Yahweh,—and he, yet further, took away the high places and the Sacred Stems, out of Judah.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— and his heart is high in the ways of Jehovah, and again he hath turned aside the high places and the shrines out of Judah.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And he lift vp his heart vnto the wayes of the Lorde, and he tooke away moreouer the hie places and the groues out of Iudah.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— And his heart was lift vp in the wayes of the LORD: moreouer hee tooke away the high places and groues out of Iudah.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And his heart was strengthened in the ways of the LORD; moreover he uprooted the altars and the high places which were within the territory of Judah.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And his heart was exalted in the way of the Lord; and he removed the high places and the groves from the land of Judah{gr.Juda}.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Yehudah. |
And his heart
3820 {3820} Primeלֵבleb{labe}
A form of H3824; the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.
was lifted up
1361 {1361} Primeגּבהּgabahh{gaw-bah'}
A primitive root; to soar, that is, be lofty; figuratively to be haughty.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
in the ways
1870 {1870} Primeדֶּרֶךְderek{deh'-rek}
From H1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbially.
of
Yähwè
יָהוֶה:
3068 {3068} PrimeיְהֹוָהY@hovah{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
moreover
x5750 (5750) Complementעוֹד`owd{ode}
From H5749; properly iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more.
he took away
5493 {5493} Primeסוּרcuwr{soor}
A primitive root; to turn off (literally or figuratively).
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
x853 (0853) Complementאֵת'eth{ayth}
Apparently contracted from H0226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely).
the high places
1116 {1116} Primeבָּמָהbamah{bam-maw'}
From an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation.
and groves
842 {0842} Primeאֲשֵׁרָה'asherah{ash-ay-raw'}
From H0833; happy; asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same.
out of
Yæhûđà
יְהוּדָה.
3063 {3063} PrimeיְהוּדָהY@huwdah{yeh-hoo-daw'}
From H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory.
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses. |
2 Chronicles 17:6
_ _ his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord — Full of faith and piety, he possessed zeal and courage to undertake the reformation of manners, to suppress all the works and objects of idolatry (see on 2 Chronicles 20:33), and he held out public encouragement to the pure worship of God. |
2 Chronicles 17:6
Lifted up — Above all discouragements, and fears. He was valiant and resolute for God and his ways. Groves — Those wherein idols were worshipped, and though Asa had done this before, yet either he did not do it thoroughly; or the Jews (who were many of them mad upon their idols) had secretly made new ones, in the latter part of his reign, when he grew more infirm in body, and more remiss in God's cause. |
2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart was (c) lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
(c) He gave himself wholly to serve the Lord. |
- his heart:
Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all [things];
Job 22:26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.
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- lifted up:
- that is, was encouraged
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- in the ways:
Psalms 18:21-22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ... For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Psalms 119:1 ALEPH. Blessed [are] the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Psalms 138:5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great [is] the glory of the LORD.
Hosea 14:9 Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, [thou] child of the devil, [thou] enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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- he took away:
2 Chronicles 14:3 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 Chronicles 15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chronicles 19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 20:33 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 34:3-7 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. ... And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
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.
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