Parallel Verses

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.

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].

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 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 4 Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. 5 And the LORD smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham, the king's son, was over the house, judging the people of the land.

Cross References

1 Kings 15:14

But the high places were not removed; nevertheless, Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.

1 Kings 22:43

And he walked in all the ways of Asa, his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away, for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

2 Kings 12:3

But with all this, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4

With all this, the high places were not taken away; as yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

With all this, 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.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places and broke the images and cut down the groves and broke in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days, the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Chronicles 17:6

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD, and he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar and burn incense upon it?

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the graven images and the molten images.

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