KJV King James Version
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
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2 Kings 15:4
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
WEB World English Bible
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
ASV American Standard Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
only, the high places have not turned aside—yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 15
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 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?
7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
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2 Kings 14:4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.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 groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.2 Chronicles 32:12Hath 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?2 Kings 18:4He 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.1 Kings 15:14But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.2 Kings 12:3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.2 Chronicles 17:6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.2 Kings 15:35Howbeit 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.1 Kings 22:43And 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.
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