Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
The higher gate
Bible References
Howbeit
2 Kings 15:4
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
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 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”?
The higher gate
2 Chronicles 27:3
Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.