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
Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
2 Chronicles 32:12
Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices"?
The higher gate
2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD and did much building on the wall of Ophel.