However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name had not been built.

However, I will not do it during your lifetime because of your father David; I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

“‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from his hand but will let him be ruler all the days of his life because of My servant David, whom I chose and who kept My commands and My statutes.

However, the people who followed Omri proved stronger than those who followed Tibni son of Ginath. So Tibni died and Omri became king.

However, in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went to visit the king of Israel.

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.