2 Kings 12:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ יְהוֹאָ֧שׁ הַיָּשָׁ֛ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה כָּל־יָמָ֑יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר הוֹרָ֔הוּ יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע הַכֹּהֵֽן׃

Transliteration

wayyaʿaś Yəhôʾāš hayyāšār bəʿênê YHWH kāl-yāmāyw ʾăšer hôrāhû Yəhôyādāʿ hakōhēn

Grammar Details

*wayyaʿaś*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3ms - and he did
*hayyāšār*: definite article + adjective - the right/straight
*bəʿênê*: preposition + construct dual noun - in eyes of
*YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*kāl-yāmāyw*: noun construct + noun + 3ms suffix - all his days
*ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
*hôrāhû*: Hiphil perfect 3ms + 3ms suffix - he taught him
*hakōhēn*: definite article + noun - the priest

Word Meanings

*hayyāšār bəʿênê YHWH*: what was right in the eyes of the LORD
*hôrāhû*: instructed him/taught him/directed him

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kgs 15:35 : 35 Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.
2 Kgs 18:4 : 4 He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
1 Kgs 22:43 : 43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Chr 31:4 : 4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Jehovah.
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

2 Kgs 14:3-4
2 verses
89%
3And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kgs 15:4
88%
4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kgs 15:35
84%
35Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.
2 Chr 20:33
81%
33Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
1 Kgs 22:43
79%
43And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah: howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Chr 33:17
79%
17Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only unto Jehovah their God.
2 Kgs 17:11-12
2 verses
76%
11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
1 Kgs 3:2-3
2 verses
76%
2Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the name of Jehovah until those days.
3And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kgs 12:2
75%
2And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
2 Kgs 12:6-8
3 verses
75%
6But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
7Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the [other] priests, and said unto them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no [more] money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
8And the priests consented that they should take no [more] money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.
2 Chr 15:17
74%
17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2 Chr 32:12
74%
12Hath 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 upon it shall ye burn incense?
2 Kgs 16:3-4
2 verses
74%
3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.
4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chr 28:3-4
2 verses
73%
3Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.
4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
2 Chr 17:6
73%
6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Jehovah: and furthermore he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
1 Kgs 15:14
73%
14But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.
1 Kgs 12:31
73%
31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.
2 Kgs 12:4
73%
4And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each man is rated, and all the money that it cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,
2 Chr 33:3
72%
3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chr 28:25
72%
25And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of his fathers.
2 Chr 19:3
72%
3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.
2 Kgs 12:18
71%
18And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
2 Kgs 23:9
71%
9Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Jehovah in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.
2 Kgs 21:3
71%
3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Kgs 23:19
71%
19And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [Jehovah] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
2 Kgs 13:6
71%
6Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)
2 Kgs 12:16
70%
16The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests'.
Deut 12:13
70%
13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;
2 Chr 27:2
70%
2And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly.
2 Kgs 17:32
70%
32So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
2 Chr 34:3
70%
3For 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 Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
2 Chr 13:9
70%
9Have ye not driven out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.
1 Kgs 13:33
70%
33After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.
Jer 19:13
70%
13and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.
2 Kgs 13:11
70%
11And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.
2 Kgs 17:29
70%
29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
2 Kgs 23:15
69%
15Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
2 Kgs 23:12-13
2 verses
69%
12And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat [them] down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Jer 17:2
69%
2whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
2 Chr 14:3
69%
3for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and brake down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,
2 Chr 21:11
69%
11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.
2 Chr 24:2
69%
2And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.