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 for fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with everything that his father Amaziah had done. Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 5And the Lord afflicted the king, so that he had leprosy to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was in charge of the household, judging the people of the land. 6Now as for 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

• the highבָּמָהbâmâh · high placeH1116
• were not eliminatedסוּרsûr 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 eliminated; 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 eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
• 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places and smashed the memorial stones to pieces, and cut down the Asherah. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel had been burning incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
• 1 Kings 15:14But the high places were not eliminated; nevertheless Asa’s heart was wholly devoted to the Lord all his days.
• 1 Kings 22:43He walked entirely in the way of his father Asa; he did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned 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 32:12Is it not the same Hezekiah who removed 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 cast 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

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