ContradictionsReading order 249Bible context 2 min read
Did Asa remove the high places?
Chronicles credits Asa with removing Judah's high places, while Kings says they were not removed. Another Chronicles statement specifically refers to their remaining in Israel.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Asa's removal of Judah's high places conflicts with Kings' general nonremoval, but the parallel Chronicles exception specifies a different geographic label.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Asa removes high places throughout Judah's cities
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves: And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
2 Chronicles 14:3-5
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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High places remain despite Asa's faithful heart
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.
1 Kings 15:14
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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