2 Kings 14:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But still 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 12:3 : 3 But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
  • 2 Kgs 16:4 : 4 And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
  • 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 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.

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  • 2 Kgs 15:3-4
    2 verses
    92%

    3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

    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 12:2-3
    2 verses
    89%

    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.

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

  • 2 Kgs 15:34-35
    2 verses
    84%

    34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

    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 14:3
    80%

    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.

  • 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 20:33
    79%

    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 Chr 28:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.

    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 Kgs 16:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 15:14
    76%

    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 33:17
    76%

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

  • 2 Chr 15:17
    76%

    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 17:6
    74%

    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 27:2
    74%

    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 13:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

    12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, and the force with which he went to war against Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    73%

    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;

  • 2 Chr 14:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    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;

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

    5 And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

  • 1 Kgs 3:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    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 Chr 34:3-5
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

    4 He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

    5 And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.

  • 2 Kgs 14:5
    72%

    5 Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

  • 2 Chr 24:4
    71%

    4 Now after this Joash had a desire to put the house of the Lord into good order again;

  • 2 Kgs 14:15
    71%

    15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash, and his power, and how he went to war with Amaziah, king of Judah, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

  • 2 Chr 32:12
    71%

    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 28:25
    71%

    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 24:2
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

  • Jer 19:4
    70%

    4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;

  • 2 Kgs 12:18
    70%

    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 13:2
    70%

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

  • 2 Chr 19:3
    70%

    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 13:6
    70%

    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 14:24
    70%

    24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Chr 33:3
    70%

    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 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 17:4
    70%

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

  • 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 Kgs 3:2
    69%

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

  • 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.