2 Kings 15:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.

KJV

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

WEB

However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

ASV

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

LSV

only, the high places have not been removed—the people are still sacrificing and making incense in high places.

YLT

only, the high places have not turned aside — yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

DBY

Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

DRC

But the high places he did not destroy: for the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

GNV

But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.

JPS

Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.

LXXE

Only he took not away any of the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

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WLC

רַ֥ק הַבָּמ֖וֹת לֹא־סָ֑רוּ ע֥וֹד הָעָ֛ם מְזַבְּחִ֥ים וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים בַּבָּמֽוֹת׃

LXX-Br

Πλὴν τῶν ὑψηλῶν οὐκ ἐξῇρεν, ἔτι ὁ λαὸς ἐθυσίαζε καὶ ἐθυμίων ἐν τοῖς ὑψηλοῖς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 2 Kings 12:3Nevertheless, the high places were not removed; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
• 1 Kings 22:43And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and…
• 2 Kings 15:35Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
• 2 Chronicles 17:6And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
• 2 Kings 14:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
• 1 Kings 15:14The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.
• 2 Chronicles 32:12Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
• 2 Kings 18:4He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense…
• 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the…

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