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1 Kings 15:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Asa reforms Judah but leaves high places.”
Asa is measured as doing right, and he removes cult personnel and idols
This verse is one part of that explanation in 1 Kings 15:9–15. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 1 Kings 15:9–15
Read 1 Kings 15:14 with 15:9–15. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Dates Asa's accession by Jeroboam's twentieth year; notes Asa's deposit of dedicated silver, gold, and vessels in the temple.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Asa reforms Judah but leaves high places,” 1 Kings 15:14 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: 1 Kings 15:1–8 establishes this prior movement: Dates Abijam's accession in Judah by Jeroboam's eighteenth year; closes Abijam's reign with burial and Asa's succession. 1 Kings 15:9–15 reverses or redirects the preceding movement; that demonstrated relationship, rather than database adjacency alone, explains its placement.
Read 1 Kings 15:9–15 together
Why these verses belong together: Asa reforms Judah but leaves high places is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 15:9–15:15.
Verse 9. 9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.
Verse 10. 10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Verse 11. 11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
Verse 12. 12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Verse 13. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
Verse 14. 14 But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
Verse 15. 15 And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
Follow the Context
- Dates Asa's accession by Jeroboam's twentieth year
- Notes Asa's deposit of dedicated silver, gold, and vessels in the temple
What This Verse Is Not Saying
1 Kings 15:14 does not permit the wording “But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days” to be read apart from the selected verse's context. The unit does not authorize attacking a living religious community, ethnic or gender stigma, self-harm, forced conversion, or killing opponents in order to reproduce an ancient royal-prophetic conflict.
What Remains True
Public power and worship remain accountable to truth, covenant faithfulness, affected people, and consequences rather than title, success, wealth, or majority support. This unit tests that truth through dates Asa's accession by Jeroboam's twentieth year; notes Asa's deposit of dedicated silver, gold, and vessels in the temple. In 1 Kings 15:14, the concrete line “But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
Teach It Back
In 70–220 words, explain 1 Kings 15:14's role in 15:9–15. Paraphrase “But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days,” identify one agent or affected person, state one material source or historical limit, and name one conclusion the context does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read 1 Kings 15:9–15 — Asa reforms Judah but leaves high placesSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: 1 Kings 15:9–15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording and morphology used for lexical, grammatical, name, clause, and older-English checks; this is not a critical apparatus or historical proof.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:9–15
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 1 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only printed unit-level translation, lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and verse-numbering notes; silence is not evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 1 Kings PDF, printed pp. 614–616, translation and translator notes for 15:9–15
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