And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.

his heart

Deuteronomy 28:47 Because thou didst not serve the Lord thy God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things:

Job 22:26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.

lifted up.

Psalm 18:21,22 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God. . . .

Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 138:5 And let them sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

Acts 13:10 Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord.

he took away

2 Chronicles 14:3 And broke the statues, and cut down the groves.

2 Chronicles 15:17 But high places were left in Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

2 Chronicles 19:3 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.

2 Chronicles 20:33 But yet he took not away the high places, and the people had not yet turned their heart to the Lord the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 31:1 And when these things had been duly celebrated, all Israel that were found in the cities of Juda, went out, and they broke the idols, and cut down the groves, demolished the high places, and destroyed the altars, not only out of all Juda and Benjamin, but out of Ephraim also and Manasses, till they had utterly destroyed them: then all the children of Israel returned to their possessions and cities.

2 Chronicles 34:3-7 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. . . .

1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. [44] Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.