| II Chronicles 14:2
| And Asa did that which was good and pleasing in the sight of his God, and he destroyed the altars of foreign worship, and the high places;
| God, with respect to the external worship of the true God, (Haydock) though he had some faults, 3 Kings 15:14. --- Places, while he tolerated those which were intended for the service of the Lord, (Calmet) though illegally; and he even left the buildings erected by Solomon standing, (4 Kings 23:13.; Tirinus) thinking they might be no longer dangerous. (Salien) --- Several other pious kings did the like, for which they deserved some reprehension; as they could not be ignorant, that this was considered as wrong by the more enlightened, Ecclesiasticus 49:5. (Tirinus) --- It was the king's duty to destroy the exterior practices of idolatry, while the priests and prophets were to instruct. (Worthington)
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