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 15:35 in other translations
| BSB | Nevertheless, 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. |
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| WEB | However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the LORD’s house. |
| ASV | Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah. |
| YLT | Only, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places; he hath built the high gate of the house of Jehovah. |
| DARBY | Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah. |
| BBE | But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord. |
| Webster | Yet, 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. |
What does 2 Kings 15:35 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 15:32-38
Jotham showed great respect to the temple. If magistrates cannot do all they would, for the suppressing of vice and profaneness, let them do the more to support and advance piety and virtue.
2 Kings 15:35 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Kings 15:35
- 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 Kings 12:3
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
- 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. Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third. So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God. …
- 2 Kings 15:4
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- 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.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
4; 18:4; 2Ch 32:12
the higher gate.
2Ch 27:3-9
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Context
- 2 Kings 15:34
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
- 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 15:36
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 15:35 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Con todo eso los altos no fueron quitados; que el pueblo sacrificaba aún, y quemaba perfumes en los altos. Edificó él la puerta más alta de la casa de Jehová. |
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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. Ce fut lui qui bâtit la porte supérieure de la maison de l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Doch die Höhen wichen nicht; das Volk opferte und räucherte noch auf den Höhen. Er baute das obere Tor des Hauses Jehovas. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit: adhuc populus immolabat, et adolebat incensum in excelsis. Ipse ædificavit portam domus Domini sublimissimam. |