Parallel Verses

Amplified

Only [the altars on] the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [instead of worshiping God at the temple].

New American Standard Bible

Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

International Standard Version

except that the high places were never removed, and the people kept on sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

A Conservative Version

However the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

American Standard Version

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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.

Darby Translation

Only, the high places were not removed: the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Julia Smith Translation

But the heights were not turned away: the people yet sacrificing and burning incense upon the heights.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Only he did not remove the high places; the people [were] still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Modern King James verseion

Only, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

save that they put not the hill altars away: for the people offered and burned fat still in the hill altars.

NET Bible

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

New Heart English Bible

However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Webster

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

World English Bible

However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Youngs Literal Translation

only, the high places have not turned aside -- yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּמה 
Bamah 
Usage: 103

שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

זבח 
Zabach 
Usage: 134

קטר 
Qatar 
Usage: 116

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

The Acts Of Azariah (Uzziah) In Judah

3 He did right in the sight of the Lord, in accordance with all that his father Amaziah had done. 4 Only [the altars on] the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [instead of worshiping God at the temple]. 5 And the Lord struck (afflicted) the king, and he was a leper until the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son was in charge of the household, judging the people of the land.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places [of idol worship] were not removed. Nevertheless, Asa’s heart was entirely devoted to the Lord all his days.

1 Kings 22:43

He walked in all the ways of Asa his father, without turning from them, doing right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

2 Kings 12:3

Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense [to the Lord] on the high places [rather than at the temple].

2 Kings 14:4

However, the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

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.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places [of pagan worship], broke down the images (memorial stones) and cut down the Asherim. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the Israelites had burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan [a bronze sculpture].

2 Chronicles 17:6

His heart was encouraged and he took great pride in the ways of the Lord; moreover, he again removed the high places [of pagan worship] and the Asherim from Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Has the same Hezekiah not taken away his [Baal’s] high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “You shall worship before [only] one altar and burn incense on it”?

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young (sixteen), he began to seek after and inquire of the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and cast images.

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