2-Kings - 15:4



4 However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Kings 15:4.

Differing Translations

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Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
But the high places he did not destroy: for the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
only, the high places have not turned aside, yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.
Yet truly, he did not demolish the high places. And still the people were sacrificing, and burning incense, in the high places.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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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