2 Kings 15 · Verse 4

2 Kings 15:4

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
2 Kings 15:4, King James Version

2 Kings 15:4 in other translations

BSBNevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
WEBHowever, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
ASVHowbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
YLTonly, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
DARBYOnly, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
BBEBut he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
WebsterSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

What does 2 Kings 15:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 15:1-7

2Ki 15:1-7. Azariah's Reign over Judah. 1-7. In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam--It is thought that the throne of Judah continued vacant eleven or twelve years, between the death of Amaziah and the inauguration of his son Azariah. Being a child only four years old when his father was murdered, a regency was appointed during Azariah's minority. began Azariah ... to reign--The character of his reign is…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 15:1-7

Uzziah did for the most part that which was right. It was happy for the kingdom that a good reign was a long one.

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2 Kings 15:4 in the original Hebrew

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רַ֥קrakonlyH7535
הַבָּמ֖וֹתha.ba.Motthe high placesH1116
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
סָ֑רוּSa.ruthey were removedH5493
ע֥וֹדodstillH5750
הָעָ֛םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
מְזַבְּחִ֥יםme.za.be.Chim[were] sacrificingH2076
וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖יםu.me.ka.te.Rimand [were] making smokeH6999
בַּבָּמֽוֹת\׃ba.ba.Motat the high placesH1116

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Cross references for 2 Kings 15:4

  • 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.

  • 1 Kings 22:43

    And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

  • 2 Chronicles 34:3

    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 1 Kings 15:14

    But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

  • 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 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the high places.
35; 14:4; 18:4; 1Ki 15:14; 22:43; 2Ch 17:6; 32:12; 34:3

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

Context

  • 2 Kings 15:3

    And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

  • 2 Kings 15:4

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

  • 2 Kings 15:5

    And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

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2 Kings 15:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Con todo eso los altos no se quitaron; que el pueblo sacrificaba aún y quemaba perfumes en los altos.
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
Verumtamen excelsa non est demolitus: adhuc populus sacrificabat, et adolebat incensum in excelsis.