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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Revised Standard Version

2 Kings 14:4

But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Places;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Joash or Jehoash;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   Baal;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Amaziah;   High Place;   Jehoash;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - High Place;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amaziah ;   Joash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Amaziah;   High places;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - High Place;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Hebrew Names Version
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
King James Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
English Standard Version
But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
New Century Version
The places where gods were worshiped were not removed, so the people still sacrificed and burned incense there.
New English Translation
But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
Amplified Bible
However, the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
New American Standard Bible
Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Notwithstanding the hie places were not taken away: for as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense in the hie places.
Legacy Standard Bible
Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Contemporary English Version
Amaziah did not destroy the local shrines, and they were still used as places for offering sacrifices.
Complete Jewish Bible
However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and offered on the high places.
Darby Translation
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Easy-to-Read Version
He did not destroy the high places. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at those places of worship.
George Lamsa Translation
But the temples of idols he did not remove, and the people still were sacrificing and burning incense on the altars on the high places.
Good News Translation
He did not tear down the pagan places of worship, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
Lexham English Bible
Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places.
Literal Translation
however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for ye hye places were not put downe, but the people offred and brent incese yet vpon the hye places.
American Standard Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Bible in Basic English
But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neither were the high places taken a way: For as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.
King James Version (1611)
Howbeit, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice, and burnt incense on the high places.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Only he removed not the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
English Revised Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that he dide not awei hiy thingis; for yit the puple made sacrifice, and brent encence in hiy thingis.
Young's Literal Translation
only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
Update Bible Version
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Webster's Bible Translation
But, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense on the high places.
World English Bible
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
New King James Version
However the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
New Living Translation
Amaziah did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.
New Life Bible
But the high places were not taken away. The people still gave gifts and burned special perfume on the high places.
New Revised Standard
But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
only, the high places, took they not away, - still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Contextual Overview

1 In the second year of Jo'ash the son of Jo'ahaz, king of Israel, Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jeho-ad'din of Jerusalem. 3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father; he did in all things as Jo'ash his father had done. 4 But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 5 And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had slain the king his father. 6 But he did not put to death the children of the murderers; according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, or the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin." 7 He killed ten thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Jok'the-el, which is its name to this day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the high places: 2 Kings 12:3, 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Kings 15:35

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:3 - only he 1 Kings 15:14 - the high places 1 Kings 22:43 - the high 2 Kings 18:4 - removed 2 Chronicles 15:17 - the high places 2 Chronicles 25:2 - but not Isaiah 65:7 - burned

Cross-References

Ezekiel 17:15
But he rebelled against him by sending ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Can a man escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit the high places were not taken away,.... Though he first did that which was right before God; nor did his father take them away; see 2 Kings 12:3.


 
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