2 Chronicles 19:3

Modern

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.”

Traditional

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.

Literal

But good things are found in you, in that you have removed the Asherah poles from the land, and you have established your heart to seek God.”

Latin

…sed bona opera inventa sunt in te, eo quod abstuleris lucos de terra Juda, et præparaveris cor tuum ut requireres Dominum Deum patrum tuorum.

Hebrew

English

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.”

Theme notes and profiles

2 Chronicles 12:12
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.
Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
1 Kings 14:13
All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
2 Chronicles 30:19
…who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
2 Chronicles 17:3–6
Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,
2 Chronicles 12:14
And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
Romans 7:18
I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
Psalm 57:7
My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing and make music.

Asherah: Canaanite goddess; associated with wooden poles, idolatry