He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
Here is, I. Asa's general character (Ch2 14:2): He did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 1. He aimed at pleasing God, studied to approve himself to him. Happy are those that walk by this rule, to do that which is right, not in their own eyes, or in the eye of the world, but in the eyes of God. 2.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 14:1-8
And commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers,.... To pray to him, and him only, and attend his worship and service; this he did by a public edict: and to do the law and the commandment: to observe all the laws of God, moral, ceremonial, and civil.
brake down the images--of Baal (see on Ch2 34:4; Lev 26:30). cut down the groves--rather, "Asherim."