Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
Parallel translations
- WEB However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- KJV Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- NKJV except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- NASB Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- NLT But he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.
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Quick answer
Yet the high places remained, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
Overview
Once more the narrative notes the persistent failure to remove the unauthorized high places, the chronic weakness of Judah's reforms. The people's worship remained mixed and disordered, falling short of wholehearted devotion to God alone. This enduring compromise underscores humanity's inability to perfect its own worship apart from the redemption God provides.
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Cross-references · 9
- 2 Chr 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.
- 2 Kgs 14:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
- 1 Kgs 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.
- 1 Kgs 15:14The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
- 2 Kgs 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 Kgs 12:3Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- 2 Chr 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 Chr 17:6And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
- 2 Kgs 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.
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Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.
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