2 Chronicles 20:33

2 Chronicles 20:33 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
• New International Version (NIV)The high places, however, were not removed, and the people still had not set their hearts on the God of their ancestors.
• English Standard Version (ESV)The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Nevertheless the high places were not taken away, for as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.

Context of 2 Chronicles 20:33

31And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 32And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of Yhwh. Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. 34Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel. 35And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

2 Chronicles 20:33 word by word

אַ֥ךְ הַבָּמ֖וֹת לֹא־סָ֑רוּ וְע֤וֹד הָעָם֙ לֹא־הֵכִ֣ינוּ לְבָבָ֔ם לֵאלֹהֵ֖י אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Howbeit the high placesבָּמָהbâmâh · high placeH1116
• were not taken awayסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: removeH5493
• for as yet the peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• had not preparedכּוּןkûn · to establish: establishH3559
• their heartsלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• unto the Godאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430
• of their fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 20:33

• 2 Chronicles 14:3For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
• 2 Chronicles 17:6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Yhwh: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
• 2 Chronicles 12:14And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek Yhwh.
• 2 Chronicles 19:3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
• 2 Chronicles 30:19That prepareth his heart to seek God, Yhwh God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
• Deuteronomy 29:4Yet Yhwh hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
• 1 Samuel 7:3And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto Yhwh with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto Yhwh, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 20:33

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 33The high places were not taken away - The idolatry, as we have seen, was universally suppressed; but some of the places where that worship had been performed were not destroyed. Some of them still remained; and these, to such a fickle people, became the means of idolatry in reigns less propitious to truth and religion.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 33The latter clause of this verse helps to reconcile the first clause with the statement that Jehoshaphat “took away the high places” (see 2 Chronicles 15:17 note).Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 31-37Verses 31-37 Jehoshaphat kept close to the worship of God, and did what he could to keep his people close to it. But after God had done such great things for him, given him not only victory, but wealth; after this, to go and join himself with a wicked king, was very ungrateful. What could he expect but that God would be angry with him? Yet it seems, he took the warning; for when Ahaziah afterward pressed him to join him, he would not, 1Ki 22:49. Thus the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 32-33The comparison of Jehoshaphat with Asa comes directly from 1 Kings 22:43 without any changes.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3333. the high places were not taken away--Those on which idolatry was practised were entirely destroyed (2Ch 17:6); but those where the people, notwithstanding the erection of the temple, continued to worship the true God, prudence required to be slowly and gradually abolished, in deference to popular prejudice.Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Jehoshaphat
• Sanctuary
• Ammon; Ammonites
• Ben-Ammi
• Chronicles, Books of
• Criticism
• Dead Sea, the
• High Place

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 20

• 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