2 Kings 12:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 14:4 : 4 But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 15:35 : 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 18:4 : 4 He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
  • 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.
  • 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 Chr 31:4 : 4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.
  • Jer 2:20 : 20 For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 14:3-4
    2 verses
    89%

    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 Kgs 15:4
    88%

    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 Kgs 15:35
    84%

    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 20:33
    81%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 22:43
    79%

    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 33:17
    79%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 12:2
    75%

    2 Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days, because he was guided by the teaching of Jehoiada the priest.

  • 2 Kgs 12:6-8
    3 verses
    75%

    6 But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.

    7 Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.

    8 So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    74%

    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 Chr 32:12
    74%

    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 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

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

  • 2 Chr 28:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

    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
    73%

    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 15:14
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:4
    73%

    4 And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    72%

    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;

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    72%

    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 19:3
    72%

    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 12:18
    71%

    18 Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 23:9
    71%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    71%

    3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

  • 2 Kgs 23:19
    71%

    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 Kgs 13:6
    71%

    6 But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)

  • 2 Kgs 12:16
    70%

    16 The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.

  • Deut 12:13
    70%

    13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

  • 2 Chr 27:2
    70%

    2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    70%

    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.

  • 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 Chr 13:9
    70%

    9 And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • 1 Kgs 13:33
    70%

    33 After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.

  • Jer 19:13
    70%

    13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    70%

    11 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

  • 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.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    69%

    15 And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

    13 And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

  • Jer 17:2
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    69%

    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 21:11
    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.

  • 2 Chr 24:2
    69%

    2 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.