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.

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

ALEPH. Blessed {are} the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. {undefiled: or, perfect, or, sincere}

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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.

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:

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great {is} the glory of the LORD.

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.

For he took away the altars of the strange {gods}, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: {images: Heb. statues}

For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all {things};

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?

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. {present: Heb. found} {images: Heb. statues} {until...: Heb. until to make an end}

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

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?