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2 Kings 15:4

Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

5And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging 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; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD; (22-44) howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.

2 Kings 12:4(12-5) And Jehoash said to the priests: 'All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of the LORD, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of the LORD,

2 Kings 15:35Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 17:6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD; and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.

2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

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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