And his heart took delight in the ways of the Lord; moreover he removed the high places and wooden images from Judah.

他高兴遵行耶和华的道，并且从犹大除掉一切邱坛和木偶。

他乐意遵行耶和华的道，并且从犹大再次除掉一切丘坛和亚舍拉。

他乐意遵行耶和华的道，并且从犹大再次除掉一切丘坛和亚舍拉。

他专心遵行耶和华的道，铲除犹大境内的丘坛和亚舍拉神像。

他勇敢地遵行耶和华的道路，并且从犹大地中除掉邱坛和亚舍拉。

他高興遵行耶和華的道，並且從猶大除掉一切邱壇和木偶。

他樂意遵行耶和華的道，並且從猶大再次除掉一切丘壇和亞舍拉。

他樂意遵行耶和華的道，並且從猶大再次除掉一切丘壇和亞舍拉。

他專心遵行耶和華的道，剷除猶大境內的邱壇和亞舍拉神像。

他勇敢地遵行耶和華的道路，並且從猶大地中除掉邱壇和亞舍拉。

在永恆主的道路上他的心志很振奮；他還從猶大地除掉了邱壇和亞舍拉神木。

奮志行耶和華之道、且除猶大之崇邱與木偶、

約沙法勇行耶和華道、廢猶大地之崇坵、偶像。

奮勇行主之道、自猶大廢諸邱壇與諸亞舍拉、

His heart was devoted to the ways of the Lord; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.

His heart was committed to living the way the Lord wanted him to. He removed the high places from Judah. He also removed the poles used to worship the female god named Asherah.

His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

He was deeply committed to the ways of the Lord. He removed the pagan shrines and Asherah poles from Judah.

He took great pride in the LORD’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

He took great pride in the ways of the Lord, and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.

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.

His mind rejoiced in the Lord’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

He was committed to following the LORD; he even removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was loyal all his days.

Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

And he walked in all the ways of his father Asa. He did not turn aside from them, doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for the people offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

Nevertheless good things are found in you, in that you have removed the wooden images from the land, and have prepared your heart to seek God.”

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images.They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali and all around, with axes.When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

and said,“ O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

Yes, they shall sing of the ways of the Lord, For great is the glory of the Lord.

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the high places and the altars— from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh— until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.

For then you will have your delight in the Almighty, And lift up your face to God.

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.

Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord!

for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and the high places, and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the wooden images.

“ Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,