2 Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God,

3 for he removed the altars of the foreign gods and ^athe high places, and ^bbroke down the sacred pillars ^cand cut down the wooden images.  ‡

5 He also removed the¹ high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom was quiet under him.  ‡

6 And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest; he had no war in those years, because the Lord had given him ^arest.  ‡