2 Kings 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
2 Kings 14:4 in other translations
| BSB | Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | only, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places. |
| DARBY | Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. |
| BBE | But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. |
| Webster | But, the high places were not taken away: as yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense on the high places. |
What does 2 Kings 14:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 14:3-6
2Ki 14:1-6. Amaziah's Good Reign over Judah. 3-6. He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father--The beginning of his reign was excellent, for he acted the part of a constitutional king, according to the law of God, yet not with perfect sincerity of heart (compare 2Ch 25:2). As in the case of his father Joash, the early promise was belied by the devious course he personally…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 14:1-7
Amaziah began well, but did not go on so. It is not enough to do that which our pious predecessors did, merely to keep up the common usage, but we must do it as they did, from the same principle of faith and devotion, and with the same sincerity and resolution.
2 Kings 14:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 14:4
- 2 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 2 Kings 16:4
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
- 2 Kings 15:35
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 15:4
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
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Context
- 2 Kings 14:3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
- 2 Kings 14:4
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
- 2 Kings 14:5
And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.
2 Kings 14:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Con todo eso los altos no fueron quitados; que el pueblo aun sacrificaba y quemaba perfumes en los altos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | seulement, les hauts lieux ne furent pas ôtés: le peuple sacrifiait encore et faisait fumer de l’encens sur les hauts lieux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Doch die Höhen wichen nicht; das Volk opferte und räucherte noch auf den Höhen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | nisi hoc tantum, quod excelsa non abstulit: adhuc enim populus immolabat, et adolebat incensum in excelsis. |