Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.

Bible References

The high places

2 Kings 15:35
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.
2 Kings 14:4
Yet the high places were not taken away, and 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.
1 Kings 15:14
The high places were not taken away; but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.
1 Kings 22:43
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
2 Chronicles 17:6
His mind rejoiced in the Lord’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.
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”?
2 Chronicles 34:3
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

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