1 Kings 15:14 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Although the illegal worship sites were not torn down, Asa remained committed to the LORD his entire life.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

ASV:

But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

BBE:

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

DBY:

But the high places were not removed; only, Asa's heart was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

ERV:

But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.

JPS:

But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole with the LORD all his days.

WBS:

But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

WEB:

But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.

YLT:

and the high places have not turned aside; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect with Jehovah all his days,

1 Kings 15:14 Cross References

XREF:

1 Kings 8:61 "Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day."

1 Kings 15:3 He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, like the heart of his father David.

1 Kings 22:43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kings 12:3 Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

15:14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was {e} perfect with the LORD all his days.
(e) Though he permitted them to worship God in other places than he had appointed it came from ignorance, and not from malice.

WES:

15:14 High places - 2Chron 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.

MHC:

15:9-24 Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord. That is right indeed which is so in God's eyes. Asa's times were times of reformation. He removed that which was evil; there reformation begins, and a great deal he found to do. When Asa found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence. Reformation must begin at home. Asa honours and respects his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better. Those that have power are happy when thus they have hearts to use it well. We must not only cease to do evil, but learn to do well; not only cast away the idols of our iniquity, but dedicate ourselves and our all to God's honour and glory. Asa was cordially devoted to the service of God, his sins not arising from presumption. But his league with Benhadad arose from unbelief. Even true believers find it hard, in times of urgent danger, to trust in the Lord with all their heart. Unbelief makes way for carnal policy, and thus for one sin after another. Unbelief has often led Christians to call in the help of the Lord's enemies in their contests with their brethren; and some who once shone brightly, have thus been covered with a dark cloud towards the end of their days.

CONC:

Asa Asa's Aside Committed Devoted Fully Heart However Nevertheless Perfect Places Remove Removed Wholly

Although Asa Asa's Committed Devoted Fully Heart High However Life Nevertheless Perfect Places Remove Removed True. Turned Whole Wholly

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