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2 Chronicles 19:3

But there is some good in you. For you have destroyed from the land the false goddess Asherah. And you have set your heart to follow God."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Groves;   Heart;   Iconoclasm;   Jehoshaphat;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Preparation;   Readiness-Unreadiness;   Reforms, Religious;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Renewed;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jehu;   Justice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehu;   Judah, Kingdom of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jehu;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Je'hu;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronicles, Books of;   Jehoshaphat (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jehoshaphat;   Jehu;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
However, some good is found in you, for you have eradicated the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God.”
Hebrew Names Version
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asherot out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
New Century Version
But there is some good in you. You took the Asherah idols out of this country, and you have tried to obey God."
New English Translation
Nevertheless you have done some good things; you removed the Asherah poles from the land and you were determined to follow the Lord ."
Amplified Bible
"But there are some good things found in you, for you have removed the Asherim (idols) from the land and you have set your heart to seek God [with all your soul's desire]."
New American Standard Bible
"But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God."
World English Bible
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neuertheles good things are found in thee, because thou hast taken away ye groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.
Legacy Standard Bible
But some good has been found in you, for you have purged the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God."
Berean Standard Bible
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God."
Contemporary English Version
But not everything about you is bad. You destroyed the sacred poles used in worshiping the goddess Asherah—that shows you have tried to obey the Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
Still, there is some good in you, in that you have removed the sacred poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God."
Darby Translation
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee; for thou hast put away the Asherahs out of the land, and hast directed thy heart to seek God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Fortunately, you did some good things in your life. You did remove the Asherah poles from this country, and you did decide to ask God for his advice."
George Lamsa Translation
But I believe good reports have been heard about you, in that you have not shed innocent blood in the land and have prepared your heart to pray before the LORD in truth.
Good News Translation
But even so, there is some good in you. You have removed all the symbols of the goddess Asherah which people worshiped, and you have tried to follow God's will."
Lexham English Bible
Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God."
Literal Translation
But good things have been found with you, for you have burned the Asherahs out of the land, and have fixed your heart to seek God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
neuertheles there is some good founde in the, that thou hast put the groues out of the londe, and hast prepared thine hert to seke God.
American Standard Version
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.
Bible in Basic English
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neuerthelesse, there are some good actes founde in thee, in that thou hast hewen downe the groues out of the lande, and hast prepared thyne heart to seke God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.'
King James Version (1611)
Neuerthelesse, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groues out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seeke God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Nevertheless some good things have been found in thee, forasmuch as thou didst remove the groves from the land of Juda, and didst direct thine heart to seek after the Lord.
English Revised Version
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thine heart to seek God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but good werkis ben foundyn in thee, for thou didist awey wodis fro the lond of Juda, and thou hast maad redi thin herte, for to seke the Lord God of thi fadris.
Update Bible Version
Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.
New King James Version
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."
New Living Translation
Even so, there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles throughout the land, and you have committed yourself to seeking God."
New Revised Standard
Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the sacred poles out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
howbeit, good things, are found with thee,-for that thou hast consumed the Sacred Stems out of the land, and hast fixed thy heart to seek God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers.
Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Ashe'rahs out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God."
Young's Literal Translation
but good things have been found with thee, for thou hast put away the shrines out of the land, and hast prepared thy heart to seek God.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God."

Contextual Overview

1 King Jehoshaphat of Judah returned in peace to his house in Jerusalem. 2 Jehu the son of Hanani the man who tells what will happen in the future went out to meet King Jehoshaphat, and said to him, "Should you help the sinful? Should you love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord is angry with you. 3 But there is some good in you. For you have destroyed from the land the false goddess Asherah. And you have set your heart to follow God." 4 So Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. He went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim. And he brought them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

good things: 2 Chronicles 12:12, 2 Chronicles 17:3-6, 1 Kings 14:13, Romans 7:18

prepared: 2 Chronicles 12:14, 2 Chronicles 30:19, Ezra 7:10, Psalms 57:7

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:23 - General Deuteronomy 12:3 - and burn 1 Kings 22:43 - doing 2 Kings 3:14 - I regard 2 Kings 18:4 - brake 2 Chronicles 17:6 - he took away 2 Chronicles 20:3 - seek the Lord 2 Chronicles 20:33 - had not 2 Chronicles 27:6 - prepared Job 11:13 - prepare Psalms 14:2 - seek Psalms 53:2 - seek Psalms 78:8 - set not Psalms 119:112 - inclined Isaiah 55:6 - Seek Jeremiah 22:1 - Go Lamentations 3:25 - unto Luke 18:2 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went out the door to the men, and shut the door behind him.
Genesis 19:8
See, I have two daughters who have never had a man. Let me bring them out to you. And do to them whatever you want. But do nothing to these men, for they have come to be safe under my roof."
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley. And he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke from a place where there is much fire.
Genesis 19:29
But when God destroyed the cities of the valley, He remembered Abraham. He sent Lot out of the center of the danger, when He destroyed the cities where Lot lived.
Genesis 21:8
When the child grew old enough to stop nursing, Abraham made a special supper on that day.
Exodus 12:15
Seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day you must get all the yeast out of your houses. Whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day will be taken away from Israel.
Exodus 12:39
They made the dough they had brought out of Egypt into loaves of bread without yeast. Yeast was not added to the dough because they had been sent out of Egypt and could not wait. They could not make ready any food for themselves.
Judges 6:19
Then Gideon went into his house and got a young goat ready. He made bread without yeast from a basket of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the water from boiling the meat in a pot. Then he brought them out to him under the tree and set them down in front of him.
1 Samuel 28:24
The woman had a fat calf in the house and was quick to kill it. She took flour, made it into dough, and made bread without yeast.
2 Kings 4:8
One day Elisha went to Shunem. An important woman was there, who talked him into eating some food. So every time he passed by, he would turn in there to eat food.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee,.... Principles of grace, righteousness, and holiness, faith, love, zeal, and other graces, true and genuine, from whence sprung many good works done by him:

in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land; cut down the groves of trees, and destroyed the idols and images in them:

and hast prepared thine heart to seek God; through the grace of God his heart was disposed to serve and worship the Lord, and to seek his honour and glory.


 
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