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2 Kings 15:4

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father Amasias had done.

5And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham the king's soil governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:43And he walked in all the way of Asa his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

2 Kings 12:4And Joas said to the priests: O All the money of the sanctified things, which is brought into the temple of the Lord by those that pass, which is offered for the price of a soul, and which of their own accord, and of their own free heart they bring into the temple of the Lord:

2 Kings 15:35But 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.

2 Chronicles 17:6And when his heart had taken courage for the ways of the Lord, he took away also the high places and the groves out of Juda.

2 Chronicles 34:3And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 15:2-8

The Reign of Azariah. ( b. c. 798.) 1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that his father Amaziah had done; 4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high… Read the whole commentary →

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