2 Kings 15:35

But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

In Context

34And he did that which was right before the Lord: according to all that his father Ozias had done, so did he.

36But the rest of the acts of Joatham, end all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

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Cross References

2 Kings 15:4But the high places he did not destroy: for the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Chronicles 23:20And he took the captains of hundreds, and the most valiant men, and the chiefs of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and brought him through the upper gate into the king's house, and set him on the royal throne.

2 Chronicles 32:12Is it not this same Ezechias, that hath destroyed his high places, and his altars, and commanded Juda and Jerusalem, saying: You shall worship before one altar, and upon it you shall burn incense?

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 15:33-38

The Reign of Jotham. ( b. c. 742.) 32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. 34 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord : he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. 35 Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned… Read the whole commentary →

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