Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But they put not away the hill altars: for the people offered and burnt cense still in the hill altars. He built the highest door in the house of the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple.
International Standard Version
except the high places were not torn down, and the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. But he rebuilt the upper gate of the LORD's Temple.
A Conservative Version
However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of LORD.
American Standard Version
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.
Amplified
Only [the altars on] the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [rather than in the temple]. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
Bible in Basic English
But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.
Darby Translation
Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. It was he who built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
But the heights were not removed: the people yet sacrificing and burning incense upon the heights. He built the gate of the house of Jehovah the Most High.
King James 2000
However the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Only the high places were not removed; the people still [were] sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the temple of Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the Upper Gate of the house of Jehovah.
NET Bible
But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places. He built the Upper Gate to the Lord's temple.
New Heart English Bible
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
Only, the high places, took they not away, still were the people offering sacrifice and burning incense in the high places, - he, built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
Webster
Yet, 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.
World English Bible
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
Only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places; he hath built the high gate of the house of Jehovah.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Kings 15:35
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jotham Reigns In Judah
34 And he did that was right in the sight of the LORD: even in all things as did his father Uzziah, did he. 35 But they put not away the hill altars: for the people offered and burnt cense still in the hill altars. He built the highest door in the house of the LORD. 36 The rest of the deeds of Jotham and all he did, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 12:3
But they took not away the hill altars, for the people slew and offered still in the hill altars.
2 Chronicles 23:20
And he took the captains of hundreds and the nobles, and the governors of the people and all the folk of the land, and brought the king down out of the house of the LORD, and they went through the high gate in the king's house, and set the king upon the seat of the kingdom.
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 27:3-9
He built the high gate of the temple of the LORD, and on the wall Ophel he built much.
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?'