"Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built th…" — 2 Kings 15:35

2 Kings 15:35 · KJV

“Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.”

— 2 Kings 15:35

Verse 34

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Verse 36

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

2 Kings 15 — Context

Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name {was} Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

And he did {that which was} right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, {are} they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

Cross References

2 Kings 12:3

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

2 Chronicles 23:20

And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. {images: Heb. statues} {Nehushtan: that is, A piece of brass}

2 Chronicles 27:3-9

He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much. {Ophel: or, the tower}

2 Kings 15:4

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

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