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
save that they put not the hill altars away: for the people offered and burned fat still in the hill altars.
2 Kings 18:4
He put away the hill altars, and brake the images and cut down the groves, and all to brake the brazen serpent that Moses made - for unto those days the children of Israel did burn sacrifice to it, and called it Nehushtan.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Is it not that Hezekiah that put down his hill altars and his other altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, 'Before one altar ye shall bow yourselves and upon that offer also?'
The higher gate
2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the high gate of the temple of the LORD, and on the wall Ophel he built much.