2 Kings 15:4
2 He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
5 And 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.
6 As for the rest of the acts of Azariah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- KJV
- Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- WEB
- However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- ASV
- Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- DARBY
- Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- BLB
- However the high places were not turned aside; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
- ÅB
- Dog ble offerhaugene ikke nedlagt; folket ble ved å ofre og brenne røkelse på haugene.
- OTB
- Men offerhaugene ble ikke fjernet; folket fortsatte å ofre og brenne røkelse på disse haugene.
- B1930
- Dog blev offerhaugene ikke nedlagt; folket blev ved å ofre og brenne røkelse på haugene.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Kings 14:4
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Read in context1 Kings 22:43
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 incense on the high places.
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:3
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
Read in context2 Kings 18:4
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 it.
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:12
Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
Read in context2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
Read in context1 Kings 15:14
The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
Read in context2 Kings 12:3
Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
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