2 Chronicles 20 · Verse 33

2 Chronicles 20:33

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 20:33, King James Version

2 Chronicles 20:33 in other translations

BSBThe high places, however, were not removed; the people had not yet set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
WEBHowever the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
ASVHowbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
YLTOnly, the high places have not turned aside, and still the people have not prepared their heart for the God of their fathers.
DARBYOnly, the high places were not removed; and as yet the people had not directed their hearts to the God of their fathers.
BBEThe high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.
WebsterBut the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts to the God of their fathers.

What does 2 Chronicles 20:33 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
33. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 The 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 20:31-37

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…

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2 Chronicles 20:33 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַ֥ךְ'akhonlyH389
הַבָּמ֖וֹתha.ba.Motthe high placesH1116
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
סָ֑רוּSa.ruthey were removedH5493
וְע֤וֹדve.'odand stillH5750
הָעָם֙ha.'Amthe peopleH5971
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
הֵכִ֣ינוּhe.Khi.nuthey directedH3559
לְבָבָ֔םle.va.Vamheart theirH3824
לֵאלֹהֵ֖יle.lo.Heito [the] God ofH430
אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם\׃'a.vo.tei.Hemancestors theirH1

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 20:33

  • 2 Chronicles 17:6

    And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

  • 2 Chronicles 19:3

    Nevertheless 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 12:14

    And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 7:3

    And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:19

    That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

  • Deuteronomy 29:4

    Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

  • 2 Chronicles 14:3

    For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the high places.
14:3; 17:6
had not.
12:14; 19:3; 30:19; De 29:4; 1Sa 7:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 2 Chronicles 20:32

    And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:33

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chronicles 20:34

    Now 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.

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2 Chronicles 20:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Con todo eso los altos no eran quitados; que el pueblo aun no había enderezado su corazón al Dios de sus padres.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Seulement, les hauts lieux ne furent pas ôtés, et le peuple n’avait pas encore disposé son cœur à rechercher le Dieu de ses pères.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Nur die Höhen wichen nicht, und das Volk hatte sein Herz noch nicht auf den Gott ihrer Väter gerichtet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit, et adhuc populus non direxerat cor suum ad Dominum Deum patrum suorum.