2-Chronicles - 33:17



17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 33:17.

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Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still on the high places, although to Jehovah their God only.
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, but only unto the LORD their God.
Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still in the high places, yet to the LORD their God only.
but still the people are sacrificing in high places, only, to Jehovah their God.
However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
Yet still the people were immolating on the high places, to the Lord their God.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The people did sacrifice - "Nevertheless the people did sacrifice on the high places, but only to the name of the Word of the Lord their God." - Targum.

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the (h) LORD their God only.
(h) Thus by ignorance they were deceived, thinking it nothing to keep the altars, so that they worshipped God: but it is idolatry to worship God any other way than he has appointed.

Nevertheless, the people did sacrifice still in the high places,.... Not in those that were built for idols, at least did not sacrifice to them; for it follows:
yet unto the Lord their God only; the Targum is,"to the name of the Word of the Lord their God.''

the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only--Here it appears that the worship on high places, though it originated in a great measure from the practice of heathenism, and too often led to it, did not necessarily imply idolatry.

Still - Manasseh could not carry the reformation so far as he had carried the corruption. It is an easy thing to debauch men's manners; but not so easy to reform them again.

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