2 Kings 15:4

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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
• New King James Version (NKJV)except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Context of 2 Kings 15:4

2He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 5The Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging 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?

2 Kings 15:4 word by word

רַ֥ק הַבָּמ֖וֹת לֹא־סָ֑רוּ ע֥וֹד הָעָ֛ם מְזַבְּחִ֥ים וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear

• Onlyרַקraq · thinH7534
• the highבָּמָהbâmâh · high placeH1116
• were not takenסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: removeH5493
• the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• stillעוֹד‛ôd ‛ôd · stillH5750
• sacrificedזָבַחzâbach · to sacrificeH2076
• and burnedקָטַרqâţar · to offer: burnH6999

Cross-references for 2 Kings 15:4

• 2 Kings 15:35Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
• 2 Kings 14:4Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
• 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
• 1 Kings 15:14But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was wholly devoted 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 right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
• 2 Chronicles 17:6He took great pride in the ways of the Lord and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 32:12Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, “You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense”?
• 2 Chronicles 34:3For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten 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

Topics related to 2 Kings 15:4

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• High place
• Assyria
• Sacrifice
• Uzza; Uzzah
• Uzziah; (azariah)

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