Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
He took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images. All public objects and relics of idolatry in Jerusalem and other cities through his kingdom were destroyed; but those high places where God was worshipped under the figure of an ox, as at Beth-el, were suffered to remain (1 Kings 15:14): so far the reformation was incomplete.