English Standard Version
2 Chronicles 33:17
17Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
2 Chronicles 33:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only.
- New International Version (NIV)The people, however, continued to sacrifice at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
- New Living Translation (NLT)However, the people still sacrificed at the pagan shrines, though only to the Lord their God.
Context of 2 Chronicles 33:17
15And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. 16He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God. 18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 19And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 332 Chronicles 33:17 word by word
אֲבָל֙ ע֣וֹד הָעָ֔ם זֹבְחִ֖ים בַּבָּמ֑וֹת רַ֖ק לַיהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 33:17
- 2 Chronicles 15:17But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.
- 2 Chronicles 32:12Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices"?
- 1 Kings 22:43He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
- 2 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 33:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17The people did sacrifice - "Nevertheless the people did sacrifice on the high places, but only to the name of the Word of the Lord their God." - Targum.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Compare 2 Kings 21:2, note; 2 Kings 18:4, note.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-17Manasseh might have been fixing the walls when he was captured. His religious reforms were like Hezekiah's but not finished. Later, Josiah removed the temple altars that Manasseh had built (2 Kings 23:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only--Here it appears that the worship on high places, though it originated in a great measure from the practice of heathenism, and too often led to it, did not necessarily imply idolatry. 2Ch 33:20-25. He Dies and Amon Succeeds Him.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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