But he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned 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.
- BSB Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
- 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.
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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 34:3For 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, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
- 2 Kgs 14:4However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 1 Kgs 22:43He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 1 Kgs 15:14But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
- 2 Kgs 18:4He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Kgs 12:3However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 2 Chr 32:12Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’
- 2 Chr 17:6His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
- 2 Kgs 15:35However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.
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