2 Chronicles 20:33

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 17:6 : 6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.
  • 2 Chr 19:3 : 3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
  • 2 Chr 12:14 : 14 And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
  • 2 Chr 14:3 : 3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
  • Deut 29:4 : 4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.
  • 2 Chr 30:19 : 19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 12:3
    81%

    3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    80%

    43 He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, though not like David his father; he did as Joash his father had done.

    4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    79%

    17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
    78%

    4 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Chr 19:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

    4 And Jehoshaphat was living in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people, from Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, guiding them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    77%

    14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
    77%

    6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
    77%

    35 But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places. He was the builder of the higher doorway of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    76%

    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 33:17
    76%

    17 However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

  • 2 Chr 17:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

    3 And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he went in the early ways of his father, not turning to the Baals,

    4 But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

  • 2 Chr 30:19
    73%

    19 Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

  • 2 Chr 34:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32 And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers.

    33 Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:33
    72%

    33 Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Chemosh, the god of Moab, and Milcom, the god of the Ammonites; they have not been walking in my ways or doing what is right in my eyes or keeping my laws and my decisions as his father David did.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
    72%

    40 But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

  • 2 Chr 20:34
    71%

    34 Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, they are recorded in the words of Jehu, the son of Hanani, which were put in the book of the kings of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2
    71%

    2 But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.

  • 2 Chr 30:7
    71%

    7 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    70%

    3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Kgs 10:31
    70%

    31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 8:61
    70%

    61 Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    70%

    25 And in every town of Judah he made high places where perfumes were burned to other gods, awaking the wrath of the Lord, the God of his fathers.

  • Jer 17:2
    70%

    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    70%

    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29 And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

  • Ps 78:8
    70%

    8 And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Judg 2:17
    70%

    17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

  • 1 Chr 29:18
    70%

    18 O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;

  • 2 Chr 34:3
    70%

    3 In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    70%

    19 Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3 For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

  • 2 Chr 19:9
    69%

    9 And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.

  • Jer 44:10
    69%

    10 Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
    69%

    14 And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

  • 1 Kgs 22:45
    69%

    45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 11:16
    69%

    16 And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    69%

    19 Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
    69%

    26 But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    69%

    18 And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 20:24
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    24 Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 17:10
    69%

    10 And the fear of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands round Judah, so that they made no wars against Jehoshaphat.

  • 2 Chr 21:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

    12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    69%

    11 Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;