English Standard Version
2 Kings 15:4
4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
2 Kings 15:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- New International Version (NIV)The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
- New King James Version (NKJV)except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- New Living Translation (NLT)But he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.
Context of 2 Kings 15:4
2He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 5And the Lord touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land. 6Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Read all of 2 Kings 152 Kings 15:4 word by word
רַ֥ק הַבָּמ֖וֹת לֹא־סָ֑רוּ ע֥וֹד הָעָ֛ם מְזַבְּחִ֥ים וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Kings 15:4
- 2 Kings 15:35Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
- 2 Kings 14:4But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
- 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
- 1 Kings 15:14But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days.
- 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 Chronicles 17:6His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
- 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"?
- 2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 15:4
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4Even though Uzziah had a positive spiritual evaluation, he still allowed worship at the pagan shrines (2 Kings 14:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-72Ki 15:1-7. Azariah's Reign over Judah. 1-7. In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam--It is thought that the throne of Judah continued vacant eleven or twelve years, between the death of Amaziah and the inauguration of his son Azariah. Being a child only four years old when his father was murdered, a regency was appointed during Azariah's minority. began Azariah ... to reign--The character of his reign is described by the brief formula employed by the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Kings 15
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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