2 Kings 15:4
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;
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, 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
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
Read in context1 Kings 22:43
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
Read in context2 Chronicles 34:3
For 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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Read in context2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:12
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
Read in context2 Chronicles 17:6
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
Read in context1 Kings 15:14
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
Read in context2 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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