2 Kings 15:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.”
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“Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“only, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Kings 15:4 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 15:14The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
- 1 Kings 22:43And 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.
- 2 Kings 12:3Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- 2 Kings 12:4Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 14:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
- 2 Kings 15:35Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 18:4He 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.
- 2 Chronicles 17:6And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:12Did 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’?
- 2 Chronicles 34:3In 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.
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