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Contemporary English Version

2 Kings 15:4

But Azariah did not destroy the local shrines, and they were still used as places for offering sacrifices.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - High Places;   Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Isaiah;   Rezin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Samuel, the Books of;   Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - High Place;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Uzzia(h);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - High places;   Jotham;   Uzziah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Uzza;   Uzziah (Azariah);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Hebrew Names Version
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
King James Version
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
English Standard Version
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
New Century Version
But the places where gods were worshiped were not removed, so the people still made sacrifices and burned incense there.
New English Translation
But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.
Amplified Bible
Only [the altars on] the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [instead of worshiping God at the temple].
New American Standard Bible
Only the high places were not eliminated; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But the hie places were not put away: for the people yet offered, and burned incense in the hie places.
Legacy Standard Bible
Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Complete Jewish Bible
However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered on the high places.
Darby Translation
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Easy-to-Read Version
But he did not destroy the high places. People still made sacrifices and burned incense in these places of worship.
George Lamsa Translation
But the temple of idols he did not remove; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
Good News Translation
But the pagan places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
Lexham English Bible
Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Literal Translation
however, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
sauynge that they put not downe the hye places. For the people dyd sacryfice and brent incense yet vpon the hye places.
American Standard Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Bible in Basic English
But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Saue that the high places were not put a way: For the people offered and burnt incense still on the high places.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.
King James Version (1611)
Saue that the high places were not remoued: the people sacrificed, and burnt incense still on the high places.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Only he took not away any of the high places: as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
English Revised Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Berean Standard Bible
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
netheles he distriede not hiy thingis; yit the puple made sacrifice, and brente encense in hiye thingis.
Young's Literal Translation
only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
Update Bible Version
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Webster's Bible Translation
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
World English Bible
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
New King James Version
except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
New Living Translation
But he did not destroy the pagan shrines, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense there.
New Life Bible
But the high places were not taken away. The people still gave gifts and burned special perfume on the high places.
New Revised Standard
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Only, the high places, took they not away, - still were the people sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But the high places he did not destroy, for the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places.
Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Contextual Overview

1 Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah in Jeroboam's twenty-seventh year as king of Israel. 2 He was only sixteen years old when he became king, and he ruled fifty-two years from Jerusalem, which was also the hometown of his mother Jecoliah. 3 Azariah obeyed the Lord by doing right, as his father Amaziah had done. 4 But Azariah did not destroy the local shrines, and they were still used as places for offering sacrifices. 5 The Lord punished Azariah with leprosy for the rest of his life. He wasn't allowed to live in the royal palace, so his son Jotham lived there and ruled in his place. 6 Everything else Azariah did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah. 7 Azariah died and was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem. His son Jotham then became king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the high places: 2 Kings 15:35, 2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Chronicles 17:6, 2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Chronicles 34:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:3 - only he 2 Kings 15:34 - according 2 Chronicles 33:17 - people

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.
Genesis 21:12
But God said, "Abraham, don't worry about your slave woman and the boy. Just do what Sarah tells you. Isaac will inherit your family name,
2 Samuel 7:12
I'll choose one of your sons to be king when you reach the end of your life and are buried in the tomb of your ancestors. I'll make him a strong ruler,
2 Samuel 16:11
Then David said to Abishai and all his soldiers: My own son is trying to kill me! Why shouldn't this man from the tribe of Benjamin want me dead even more? Let him curse all he wants. Maybe the Lord did tell him to curse me.
2 Chronicles 32:21
and he sent an angel that killed every soldier and commander in the Assyrian camp. Sennacherib returned to Assyria, completely disgraced. Then one day he went into the temple of his god where some of his sons killed him.
Galatians 4:28
My friends, you were born because of this promise, just as Isaac was.
Philemon 1:12
Sending Onesimus back to you makes me very sad.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Save that the high places were not removed,.... That is, he did right, excepting in that instance, and which was the case of his father and other kings before him, and others afterwards, till Hezekiah came:

the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places; see

2 Kings 12:3.


 
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