And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
Ver. 6. And his heart was lifted up.] Not with pride, as 2 Chronicles 32:25, but with undaunted courage and disengaged zeal, such as made him come off roundly and readily in the ensuing reformation: he was more forward and forth putting than his father Asa, "not slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."