2nd Kings Chapter 12 verse 3 Holy Bible
Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
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Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
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only, the high places have not turned aside, still are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - But the high places were not taken away. So it had been with the best of the previous kings of Judah, as Asa (1 Kings 15:14) and Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:43); and so it was with the other "good" kings (2 Kings 14:4; 2 Kings 15:4, 35) until the reign of Hezekiah, by whom the high places were removed (see below, 2 Kings 18:4). We must remember that it was Jehovah who was worshipped in the "high places," not Baal, or Moloch, or Ashtoreth (see the comment on 1 Kings 15:14). The people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places. The people, not the king, in the earlier portion of his reign; but in the later portion, probably the king also (see 2 Chronicles 24:17, 18).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) But.--Save that; as at 2Kings 15:4. (For the statement of the verse, comp. 1Kings 15:14.)Sacrificed . . . burnt.--Were wont to sacrifice . . . burn. The worship of the high places continued even under the regime of Jehoiada.
