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1 Kings 22:43

Bible in Basic English 1965

He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

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For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was king for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.

But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.

Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.




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