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Did King Asa remove the high places?

Biblical Passages

2 Chronicles 14:2-3
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God:
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

2 Chronicles 15:17
But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

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He either removed the high places or they were not removed. Can’t be both!
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Book1 KingsBook2 ChroniclesTypeContradiction