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2 Kings 15:35

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Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

Howbeit the high places {H1116} were not removed {H5493}: the people {H5971} sacrificed {H2076} and burned incense {H6999} still in the high places {H1116}. He built {H1129} the higher {H5945} gate {H8179} of the house {H1004} of the LORD {H3068}.

However, the high places were not taken away; and the people still sacrificed and offered on the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of ADONAI.

Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

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Cross-References

  • 2 Kings 12:3 (3 votes)

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

  • 2 Chronicles 23:20 (3 votes)

    And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  • 2 Kings 15:4 (2 votes)

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

  • 2 Kings 18:4 (2 votes)

    He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

  • 2 Chronicles 27:3 (2 votes)

    He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

  • 2 Chronicles 27:9 (2 votes)

    And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:12 (2 votes)

    Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?