However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
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However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
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Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
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Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and offered in the high places.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to 2 Kings 15:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 15:14 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Yahweh all his days.
- 1 Kings 22:43 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 2 Kings 12:3 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 2 Kings 14:4 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
- 2 Kings 15:35 However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.
- 2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
- 2 Chronicles 17:6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:12 Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 15:4 Save that the high places were not…
2Ki 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
Ver. 4. The high places were not removed.] No, not in his best times. This, if it did not loose, yet it lessened his crown of glory.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Save that; understand this as howbeit, 2Ki 14:4.
Save that; understand this as howbeit, 2Ki 14:4.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord smote the king,.... With leprosy; the…
And the Lord smote the king,.... With leprosy; the reason of it was, because he intruded into the priest's office, and went into the temple to burn incense on the altar of incense, Ch2 26:19,
so that he was a leper unto the day of his death; but how long it was to it from his being smitten cannot be said with certainty; Dr. Lightfoot (l) thinks he died the same year he was smitten:
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and dwelt in a several house: without Jerusalem, as the Targum; for lepers, according to the law, were to dwell separate without the camp or city, Lev 13:46 the word for "several" signifies "free" (m); here he lived alone, free from the company and conversation of men, free from the business of government, his son doing that for him, and in the country, where he might freely walk about, as lepers did, and take the air; the Jews say (n), his house was among the graves, where he was free among the dead, as the phrase is, Psa 88:5, but not likely; much better is what Abendana observes from R. Jonah, that the word, in the Arabic (o) language, signifies a little house, and so this might be in which he dwelt out of the city, in comparison of his palace:
and Jotham the king's son was over the house; had the direction of the palace, and the management of all affairs in it:
judging the people of the land; administering justice in all cases, for which they came to him, and so filled up his father's place; he did not depose his father, nor take upon him to be king, only did the business of one.
(l) Works, vol. 1. p. 99. (m) "in domo libero", V. L. Tigurine version, &c. (n) T. Hieros. apud Jarchium in loc. (o) "in exiqua domo resedit assidue", Castel. Lexic. col. 1345.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain But. In this he was not different from his…
But. In this he was not different from his father, chap. xiv. 4.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. save that [R.V. Howbeit] the high places] The…
4. save that [R.V. Howbeit] the high places] The rendering is thus made to agree with verse 25 of this chapter, where the Hebrew is the same. The Chronicler at this point supplies us with many particulars of Azariah’s history unnoticed in Kings. Azariah, he says, ‘sought God in the days of Zechariah’, a prophet, who appears to have been, the king’s counsellor. He made war with success upon the Philistines, the Arabians and the Mehunim. The Ammonites became tributary to him, and he fortified Jerusalem. He built many towers, and digged many wells, had much cattle and many labourers in husbandry, ‘for he loved husbandry’. He had also a large and well-ordered army of more than three hundred thousand men, and at their head were two thousand six hundred mighty men of valour. The king provided largely for their equipment with both defensive and offensive armour, and he also contrived many cunning engines of war, so that ‘his name spread far abroad, for he was marvellously helped till he was strong’.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Save that the high places were not removed: the…
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. (comp. 2Ki_14:4, and the comment ad loc.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the high places were not taken away
the high places were not taken away
This can be stated in active form. AT: "no one took away the high places" or "Azariah did not have anyone take the high places away" (See: Active or Passive)
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were not taken away
Being taken away represents being destroyed. AT: "were not destroyed" (See: Metaphor)
to the day of his death
The abstract noun "death" can be expressed with the verb "die." AT: "until the day he died" (See: Abstract Nouns)
Jotham, the king's son, was over the household
The word "household" refers to the people living in the king's palace. Because Azariah was a leper, he had to live in a separate house. So his son, Jotham, took charge over the palace.
was over the household
Being over the household represents having authority over those in it. AT: "was in charge of the household" or "had authority over those in Azariah's palace" (See: Metaphor)
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high place
sacrifice
incense
afflicted
leper
die
Jotham
household
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 15:4 In spite of his good spiritual evaluation, Uzziah…
15:4 In spite of his good spiritual evaluation, Uzziah continued to allow worship at the pagan shrines (14:4).
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