The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no House built for the Name of Adonai until those days.
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa, not straying from them, but doing what was right in Adonai’s eyes.
Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Adonai their God.
I will destroy your high places and cut down your altars of incense, cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and My soul will abhor you.
10 fat oxen, 20 pasture-fed oxen, 100 sheep, beside deer, gazelles, roebucks and fatted geese.
Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in any place you see.
They answered them and said, “He is there, ahead of you. Hurry now, for he has come today to the town because people have a sacrifice at the high place today.
For they provoked Him with their high places, so they aroused His jealousy with their graven images.
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every leafy tree;
But they did not take away the high places. Nevertheless Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to Adonai all his days.
However, they did not take away the high places, and the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.
The high places, however, were not taken away. The people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Though the high places were not removed from Israel, still Asa’s heart was completely committed to Adonai all his days.