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- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Adam Clarke Commentary
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.
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Clarke, Adam. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "The Adam Clarke Commentary". https:/
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole 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.
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Barnes, Albert. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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.
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Gill, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https:/
Geneva Study Bible
But b the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.(b) So hard a thing it is for them, that are in authority, to be brought to the perfect obedience of God.
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Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But the high places were not taken away — The popular fondness for the private and disorderly rites performed in the groves and recesses of hills was so inveterate that even the most powerful monarchs had been unable to accomplish their suppression; no wonder that in the early reign of a young king, and after the gross irregularities that had been allowed during the maladministration of Athaliah, the difficulty of putting an end to the superstitions associated with “the high places” was greatly increased.
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible". https:/
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Burnt incense — To the true God.
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Wesley, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible". https:/
John Trapp Complete Commentary
2 Kings 12:3 But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Ver. 3. But the high places.] Tyrannus ille trium literarum, mos; Custom had so prevailed, that Jehoiada durst not advise the king to cross the people in this superstition, lest it should cause a tumult; lest they should more regard commotioners than commissioners, and be more guided by rage, than by right; violence and obstinacy, like two untamed horses, drawing their desires in a blindfold career, as it fell out here in England when King Edward VI began to reform.
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Trapp, John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https:/
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible
The people were so fondly and strangely addicted to
the high places, that the foregoing kings, though men of riper years, and great power and courage, and finally settled in their thrones, could not take them away; and therefore it is not strange if Jehoiada could not now remove them, when the king was very young and tender, and not well settled in his kingdom, and when the people were more corrupt and disorderly through Athaliah’s maladministration.
Sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places to God.
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Poole, Matthew, "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. https:/
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
3.High places were not taken away — And these were a constant temptation to idolatry. A nation that had been so thoroughly flooded with idolatrous practices as Israel could not be morally safe with these temptations ever before their eyes. The failure to abolish these was one great mistake of Joash and other kings who attempted reformation. Compare notes on 1 Kings 3:2; 1 Kings 15:14.
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Whedon, Daniel. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". https:/
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments
2 Kings 12:3. But the high places were not taken away — The people were so much and so strangely addicted to these private altars, (on which they sacrificed to the true God,) that the preceding kings, though men of riper years and greater power and courage than Jehoash, and firmly established on their thrones, were not able to remove them. And, therefore, it is not strange that Jehoiada could not now take them away, when the king was young, and not well settled in his kingdom, and when the people were more corrupt and disorderly through Athaliah’s mal-administration.
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Benson, Joseph. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". Joseph Benson's Commentary. https:/
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
Places, to the true God, but contrary to his law. The king was deterred from overturning these altars, through human policy; which did not meet with the divine approbation. (Calmet) See 3 Kings xxii. 24., and Deuteronomy xii. 8.
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Haydock, George Leo. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary". https:/
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
the high places. They were first abolished by Hezekiah, and then (after their revival by Manasseh) by Josiah. Note the Figure of speech Epanadiplosis.
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Bullinger, Ethelbert William. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "E.W. Bullinger's Companion bible Notes". https:/
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
But the high places were not taken away. The popular fondness for the private and disorderly rites performed is the groves and recesses of hills was so inveterate, that even the most powerful monarchs had been unable to accomplish their suppression; no wonder that, in the early reign of a young king, and after the gross irregularities that had been allowed during the mal-administration of Athaliah, the difficulty of putting an end to the superstitions associated with "the high places" was greatly increased.
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Jamieson, Robert, D.D.; Fausset, A. R.; Brown, David. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged". https:/
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
(3) But.—Save that; as at 2 Kings 15:4. (For the statement of the verse, comp. 1 Kings 15:14.)
Sacrificed . . . burnt.—Were wont to sacrifice . . . burn. The worship of the high places continued even under the régime of Jehoiada.
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Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". https:/
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.- 14:4; 18:4; 1 Kings 15:14; 22:43; 2 Chronicles 31:4; Jeremiah 2:20
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Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on 2 Kings 12:3". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https:/
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