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Clementine Latin Vulgate
2 Paralipomenon 12:3
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Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit: adhuc enim populus immolabat, et adolebat in excelsis incensum.
[12:4] Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit; adhuc populus immolabat et adolebat in excelsis.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
2 Kings 14:4, 2 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 15:14, 1 Kings 22:43, 2 Chronicles 31:4, Jeremiah 2:20
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:3 - only he 2 Kings 15:3 - General 2 Chronicles 15:17 - the high places Isaiah 65:7 - burned
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But the high places were not taken away,.... Used before the temple was built, or set up in Rehoboam's time, 1 Kings 14:23 contrary to the law of God, which required that sacrifices should only be offered in the place the Lord chose to dwell in, Deuteronomy 12:4 the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places; as they had done in the times of Athaliah, and though the pure worship of God was restored at Jerusalem; and indeed this they did in all preceding reigns; nor was it in the power of the best of kings, at least they did not think it safe to attempt to remove them till Hezekiah's time; so fond were the people of them because of their antiquity and supposed sanctity, and for the sake of ease.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The worship on the “high places” seems to have continued uninterruptedly to the time of Hezekiah, who abolished it 2 Kings 18:4. It was, however, again established by Manasseh, his son 2 Kings 21:3. The priests at this time cannot have regarded it as idolatrous, or Jehoiada would have put it during his regency.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 2 Kings 12:3. The high places were not taken away — Without the total destruction of these there could be no radical reform. The toleration of any species of idolatry in the land, whatever else was done in behalf of true religion, left, and in effect fostered, a seed which springing up, regenerated in time the whole infernal system. Jehoiada did not use his influence as he might have done; for as he had the king's heart and hand with him, he might have done what he pleased.
