2 Chronicles 33:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?
  • 1 Kgs 22:43 : 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 15:4 : 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 15:17 : 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 12:3
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    3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

  • 2 Kgs 15:4
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    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 33:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

    16 And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:33
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    33 The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 15:35
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    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 Kgs 14:4
    76%

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-4
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    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.

    3 And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

    4 And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32-33
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    73%

    32 So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.

    33 They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.

  • 2 Chr 33:18-19
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    18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

    19 And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    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;

    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • 2 Chr 32:12
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    12 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?

  • 2 Chr 11:16
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 7:4
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    4 Then the king and all the people made offerings before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 28:4
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    4 And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

  • 2 Chr 17:6
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    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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
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    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 Chr 33:3-5
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    3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

    4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

    5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 34:33
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    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.

  • Josh 22:23
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    23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

  • 2 Chr 28:25
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
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    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.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2 Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

  • 1 Kgs 8:62
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    62 Now the king, and all Israel with him, were making offerings before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
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    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 Kgs 17:35
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    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Lev 17:8
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    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • 1 Sam 7:4
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    4 So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.

  • 2 Kgs 17:9
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    9 And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
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    9 Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.

  • Ezek 20:28
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    28 For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
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    1 Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
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    31 And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

  • 2 Chr 17:4
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    4 But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.

  • Exod 22:20
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    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
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    17 And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

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    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.

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    4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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    19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

  • 2 Chr 14:4
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    4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.

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    18 And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
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    14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.