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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Revised Standard Version

2 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; 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 - Azariah;   Isaiah;   Rezin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Samuel, the Books of;   Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Uzzia(h);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;   Jotham;   Uzziah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Uzza;   Uzziah (Azariah);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet the high places were not taken away; 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
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
English Standard Version
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
New Century Version
But the places where gods were worshiped were not removed, so the people still made sacrifices 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
Only [the altars on] the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [instead of worshiping God at the temple].
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)
But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned 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
But Azariah 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 taken away; 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
But he did not destroy the high places. People still made sacrifices and burned incense in these places of worship.
George Lamsa Translation
But the temple of idols he did not remove; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Good News Translation
But the pagan places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
Lexham English Bible
Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Literal Translation
however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
sauynge that they put not downe the hye places. For the people dyd sacryfice and brent incense 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 he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saue that the high places were not put a way: For the people offered and burnt incense still 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)
Saue that the high places were not remoued: the people sacrificed, and burnt incense still on the high places.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Only he took not away any of 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; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
netheles he distriede not hiy thingis; yit the puple made sacrifice, and brente encense in hiye 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
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still 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
except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
New Living Translation
But he 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
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; 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 the high places he did not destroy, for 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 twenty-seventh year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Azari'ah the son of Amazi'ah, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoli'ah of Jerusalem. 3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amazi'ah had done. 4 Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land. 6 Now the rest of the acts of Azari'ah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 7 And Azari'ah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the high places: 2 Kings 15:35, 2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Chronicles 17:6, 2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Chronicles 34:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:3 - only he 2 Kings 15:34 - according 2 Chronicles 33:17 - people

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the lad and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your descendants be named.
2 Samuel 7:12
When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
2 Samuel 16:11
And David said to Abi'shai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him.
2 Chronicles 32:21
And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.
Galatians 4:28
Now we, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.
Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Save that the high places were not removed,.... That is, he did right, excepting in that instance, and which was the case of his father and other kings before him, and others afterwards, till Hezekiah came:

the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places; see

2 Kings 12:3.


 
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