2 Kings 15:4 “Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continue…”

2 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

World English Bible

However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

American Standard Version

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Geneva Bible 1599

But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.

Darby Translation

Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Young's Literal Translation

only, the high places have not turned aside — yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

Bible in Basic English

But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

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Cross references

“the high places”

2 Kings 15:35 2 Kings 14:4 2 Kings 18:4 1 Kings 15:14 1 Kings 22:43 2 Chronicles 17:6

2 Kings 15:35 · BSB

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 14:4 · BSB

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 18:4 · BSB

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to…

1 Kings 15:14 · BSB

The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

1 Kings 22:43 · BSB

And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned…

2 Chronicles 17:6 · BSB

And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

Also

2 Kings 12:3

2 Kings 12:3 · BSB

Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

5And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

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