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
only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.
2 Kings 18:4
he hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it 'a piece of brass.'
2 Chronicles 32:12
Hath not Hezekiah himself turned aside His high places, and His altars, and speaketh to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, Before one altar ye bow yourselves, and on it ye make perfume?
The higher gate
2 Chronicles 27:3
He hath built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and in the wall of Ophel he hath built abundantly;