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 He did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as 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 Jehovah sent disease on the king and he became a leper. To the day of his death he lived separately in his private house. Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.


Cross References

1 Kings 15:14

The high places were not taken away. Nevertheless Asa's heart was true to Jehovah all his life.

1 Kings 22:43

Like his father Asa before him, he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah. However the places of worship were not destroyed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.

2 Kings 12:3

The high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4

Still the high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 15:35

But he did not take away the high places. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He was the builder of the higher gate of the Temple of Jehovah.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places. He broke the stone pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah poles. The brass snake that Moses had made was crushed to powder at his command, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

2 Chronicles 17:6

His heart was devoted to the ways of Jehovah. He destroyed all the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah in Judah.

2 Chronicles 32:12

Did Hezekiah not tear down all except one of Jehovah's altars and places of worship? And did he not tell you people of Jerusalem and Judah to worship at that one place?

2 Chronicles 34:3

It was the eighth year of his reign. He was still a boy when he dedicated his life to service of the God of his ancestor David. In his twelfth year as king he purged Judah and Jerusalem by destroying the illegal places of worship, poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, carved idols, and metal idols.

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