Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

New American Standard Bible

Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on 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.

International Standard Version

except that the high places were never removed, and the people kept on sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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].

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.

Darby Translation

Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Julia Smith Translation

But the heights were not turned away: the people yet sacrificing and burning incense upon the heights.

King James 2000

Except that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Only he did not remove the high places; the people [were] still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Modern King James verseion

Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

save that they put not the hill altars away: for the people offered and burned fat still in the hill altars.

NET Bible

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

New Heart English Bible

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

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּמה 
Bamah 
Usage: 103

שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

זבח 
Zabach 
Usage: 134

קטר 
Qatar 
Usage: 116

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

The Acts Of Azariah (Uzziah) In Judah

3 Azariah did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his father Amaziah had done. 4 Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. 5 The Lord afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.


Cross References

1 Kings 15:14

The high places were not taken away; but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 12:3

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 14:4

Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.

2 Chronicles 17:6

His mind rejoiced in the Lord’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Didn’t Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before one altar, and you must burn incense on it”?

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

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