2 Chronicles 20:33
“Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.”
And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
Related Verses
“And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.”
“And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.”
“They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.”
“Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.”
“Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.”