2 Chronicles 33:17

However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

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In The King James Version

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

In Context

16And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:43He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord;\

2 Chronicles 15:17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

2 Chronicles 32:12Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:12-21

11 Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God. 14 Now after this he built a wall… Read the whole commentary →

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